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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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CHAP. XIII. Showing the evil Consequences, Absurdities, and Contradictions, that attend Infant-Baptism, as 'tis Asserted and Practised.
CHAP. XIII. Shewing the evil Consequences, Absurdities, and Contradictions, that attend Infant-Baptism, as 'tis Asserted and Practised.
Object. BUT what harm is there in Baptizing of Children? is it not an innocent thing? can it do the Child any hurt?
Object. BVT what harm is there in Baptizing of Children? is it not an innocent thing? can it do the Child any hurt?
Answ. The harm will be to the Parents and Ministers, who do that in Christ's Name, which they have no Authority from him to do. If it do any harm to Infants, 'tis not till they are grown up, and then it may be a means to blind their Eyes, and cause some of them to conclude, they in Baptism became the Children of God, were regenerated, made Christians, Members of Christ, and Heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven; and cause others to think they were then rightly baptized, and so to look after no other Baptism. Whereas, poor Souls, they are all unbaptized Persons, having never had any Baptism at all but Rantism.