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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 14: Proving Baptism a great and glorious Ordinance, and that 'tis initiating or an In-let i…
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Fourthly, 'Tis called a justifying of God, and our Disobedience herein a rejecting the Counsel of God, Luk. 7. 29, 30.
Fourthly, 'Tis called a justi•ying of God, and our Disobedience herein a rejecting the Counsel of God, Luk. 7. 29, 30.
Fifthly, It appears a great Ordinance, in that the highest, nay the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit can't exempt a Person from his Obedience ⟨p. 173⟩hereto, as appears in Cornelius's case. Nay, the greater Gifts and Graces a Person hath, the more fit a Subject he is of this Ordinance (as Peter's words do import.1)
Sixthly, Consider the great things and Mysteries held forth hereby, viz. the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, and our dying to Sin, and Duty to walk in newness of Life, it preaches the Gospel to our very sight in a very lively Figure; and therefore a great Ordinance.