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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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By one Spirit we (are said) all to be baptized into one Body, 1 Cor. 12, 13, By one Spirit, that is, by the Authority and Appointment of the Spirit, and by the Guidance, Conduct, and Leadings of the Spirit; not that all that are true Members of the Church are baptized with the holy Spirit, sith the Baptism of the Spirit denotes (as we have elsewhere proved) the extraordinary Gifts or Effusion of the Holy Ghost, which was received in the Apostles days, and which continued not in the Church. And have been all made to drink into one Spirit. In these words he alludes to the Ordinance of the Supper, which you may as well say, is a spiritual eating and drinking only, as so to speak of Baptism; because 'tis said by one Spirit we are all baptized, 'tis not said with one Spirit. Besides, should any assert that the Apostle means the Baptism of the Spirit, and that the ordinary Gifts and Graces of the Spirit is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit; then it would follow that there are two Baptisms left in the Church, which seems to be contrary to what Paul saith.1
Fifthly, Because the Lord Jesus hath joined Faith and Baptism together in the Commission, and both were taught as beginning or fundamental Principles of his Doctrine, or part of those first Rudiments that belongs to every Babe in Christ, or Christian Man and Woman, Heb. 5. 12. & 6. 1, 2. and all those six Principles,1 as our late Annotators affirm, are initiating, and so they must be; for if they are Fundamentals, they must either be Fundamentals of Salvation, or else of Church-Communion: Now Baptism cannot be a Fundamental of Salvation, therefore of Church-Communion, how necessary 'tis to lay a sure Foundation no Man can be ignorant.