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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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How dares any Man, who loves and desires to honour the Lord Jesus, violate his Holy and Great ⟨p. 180⟩Commission, Matth. 28. or act and do contrary thereto, who requires all Disciples to be baptized? derogating from the Rule in one thing, opens a Gap to other Disorders, and it renders Christ's Institution a petty and indifferent thing: you may as well dispense (with the neglect, or) with the ignorance of Men in the Lord's Supper, as well as so to do in respect of Baptism; and let them abide Members who refuse to break Bread with the Church, and yet would continue Members, pretending ignorance; perhaps they will tell you, they can answer the End of that Ordinance in breaking their common Bread, &c.
Object. 1But doth not the Apostle say, Such as are weak in the Faith, receive you, &c.
1. It cannot be meant received into the Church, because they that the Apostle there speaks of, were in the Faith, or visible Profession of the Gospel, and were Members of the Church, tho they were weak ones, or but Babes in Christ.