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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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1. But is it no harm to alter Christ's Order in the Commission,1 who requires Faith and Repentance to precede, or go before Baptism; or first to make them Disciples by Teaching, and then to Baptize them? And for Men to invert this Order as to baptize them, & then teach them Repentance ⟨p. 166⟩and Faith, sure it must be an evil and hurtful thing so to do.
- 1Mr. Danver's Book of Baptism, p. 212, 213, 214.
2. Is it not an evil thing to change the true subjects of Baptism, who are Believing and Understanding Men, to ignorant Babes, who neither know good nor evil?
3. Is it not an evil thing to frustrate the sacred and spiritual ends of Baptism, which are many, as you have heard; and by administering it to poor Babes, render it wholly an Insignificant thing?
3. Is it not an evil thing to frustrate the sacred and spiritual ends of Baptism, which are many, as you have heard; and by administring it to poor Babes, render it wholly an Insignificant thing?