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Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…
Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smithies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smythies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...
London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Nathaniel Crouch ..., 1689
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Chapter 1: Wherein the Baptism of Water is proved to be that intended in the Commission, and so a…
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Therefore John Baptized only as Christ's Servant, and it was from Heaven he received Commission to Baptize; and our Lord's Submission to it himself as administered by John, to fulfil all righteousness, (that is, as one observes, the Righteousness of his own Law, i. e. the Gospel, to be an Example to us, and the Father's glorious Approbation of his Son in his Obedience herein, by a Voice from Heaven at the time of his coming out of the Water) one would think might put an end to these foolish Objections.
Therefore John Baptized only as Christ's Servant, and it was from Heaven he received Commission to Baptize; and our Lord's Submission to it himself as administred by John, to fulfil all righteousness, (that is, as one observes, the Righteousness of his own Law, i. e. the Gospel, to be an Example to us, and the Father's glorious Approbation of his Son in his Obedience herein, by a Voice from Heaven at the time of his coming out of the Water) one would think might put an end to these foolish Objections.
Jesus Christ we say, owned Water-baptism to be his Ordinance, by subjecting himself to it, tho administered by his servant John; and the Father ratified it also, as well as the Holy Ghost, the one by that Voice from Heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; and the other in coming down, or descending (in a visible manner) like a Dove, and lighting upon him *And certainly had not this Ordinance been to abide, our Saviour would not have given such a Commission a little before he ascended into Heaven ⟨p. 14⟩for the continuance of it to the World's end. Nay, if it had been to cease, he would doubtless have given some hint of it, and have told his Disciples plainly when at Jerusalem, they should be anointed with Power from on High, they should go and Preach the Gospel to all the World, or make Disciples of the Nations, but not baptize them any more, for that the way of Repentance and Faith, and the Spirit's Baptism, was all the Baptism they should teach and instruct the People in. Moreover, had Peter known this to have been the Mind of his Blessed Master, he would doubtless have said to them,