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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 12: Containing an Answer to several other Arguments brought for Infant-Baptism.
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3. When you can prove the Faith of the Parents, or their subjection to the external Rite of Baptism, adds any spiritual advantage to their Children, or such as gives them a right to Baptism, we will give up the Controversy.—
3. When you can prove the Faith of the Parents, or their subjection to the external Rite of Baptism, adds any spiritual advantage to their Children, or such as gives them a right to Baptism, we will give up the Controversie.—
Object. But whereas you say, Baptism was always done by dipping the Body all over in Water, how can that be, since some were baptized in Houses?
Answ. I answer, That is a fancy, a thing asserted without the least shadow of ground, tho no less Men than our late worthy Annotators seem to affirm this very thing; for notwithstanding the Jailer, 1and those of his, were baptized the same hour of the Night, &c. Yet can any suppose they could not go out of the House so late? might there not be a Pond, or some River near? whithersoever ⟨p. 164⟩they went, or wheresoever it was done, it is no matter, they were baptized; which has been sufficiently proved to be Immersion, or dipping the Body in Water.
Answ. I answer, That is a fancy, a thing asserted without the least shadow of ground, tho no less Men than our late worthy Annotators seem to affirm this very thing; for notwithstanding the Jaylor, 1and those of his, were baptized the same hour of the Night, &c. Yet can any suppose they could not go out of the House so late? might there not be a Pond, or some River near? whithersoever