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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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Baptism is,1 saith Dr. Ames, a Sacrament of Initiation.
- 1Marrow of Div. p. 181 Elton on Col. 2. 11. p. 291.
Elton on Col. 2. 11. saith also, That Baptism is the Sacrament of Incision, or engrafting into Christ, sealing up our setting into Christ, which is only once done, never after to be done again, &c.
Mr. Strong says,1 Baptism is a Sacrament of Initiation, and the Ordinance of visible admission into the Church: And as it is a Sin, saith he, to keep them out whose Right it is; so it is a Sin also to admit them that have no Right, because the Ordinance of Christ is abused and misplaced.
- 1Discourse of the Covenant, p. 226