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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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8. Has God ordained Baptism to be an Ordinance to save the Souls of any Persons, either the Adult or Infants? is the Opus operatum of Baptism, think you, a likely way or means to beget or bring forth Children to Christ, or make Disciples of them? Baptism signifies no thing (it being but a Sign) where the inward Grace signified by it is wanting.
9. Is it not strange that you should say, That none but the Children of Believers ought to be Baptized? And that Baptism is absolutely necessary to Church-Communion, or an initiating Ordinance? And yet commonly take into your Churches, such Persons (that are converted) ⟨p. 168⟩whose Parents were very wicked and ungodly Persons as any in the Parish, and so lived and died (as far as you know); and yet do you not account their Baptism to •e sufficient?
10. Is it not an hurtful and evil thing, to defile and pollute the Church, by bringing in the Fleshy Seed which Christ hath cast out?
10. Is it not an hurtful and evil thing, to defile and p•lute the Church, by bringing in the Fleshy Seed which Christ hath cast out?