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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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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?
11. Is it not an evil and dangerous thing to lay a foundation of Ignorance and Profaneness, and to confound the World and Church together, which ought to be separated? and to make the Church National, which ought to be Congregational?
11. Is it not an evil and dangerous thing to lay a foundation of Ignorance and Prophaneness, and to confound the World and Church together, which ought to be separated? and to make the Church National, which ought to be Congregational?