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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 1: Wherein the Baptism of Water is proved to be that intended in the Commission, and so a…
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2. But after Christ had suffered, it is the Baptism of Repentance, and Faith, for the Remission of Sins by Christ that is already come, hath died, was buried, and is risen again for our Justification; they baptized into Christ to suffer; now we are baptized into Christ who hath suffered.
3. Neither can this seem strange to any Man, sith the Doctrine which John, Christ himself, and his Disciples, preached before our Saviour suffered, differed in the same respect also, for they all then preached Repentance, Faith and Salvation by Christ, to suffer.
But had John lived till Christ had suffered, he would have preached Repentance, and Faith, and administered Baptism as we now do, viz. in and by Christ, who hath suffered; and this is all the difference, I say, that I know of, (which is only circumstantial) between the preaching the Gospel, and baptizing, before the Death of Christ, and that after his Death; wherefore the word of the Gospel under John, and after Christ's Death and Resurrection, is called the very same Word; and the Word that Peter preached to Cornelius and his House, is said to begin from John's Baptism, as the same Word which John came preaching; so that the Baptism with which John came baptizing, continues still, and was preached and practised by Command from Christ, by the Mouth of Peter, on Disciples believing, in that very place Acts 10.1 And this not in honour of John, as some frivolously affirm, but as a thing which ought to be done, as in force a-new from the Lord Jesus, in whose Name Peter administered it, and not without Warrant from Christ so to do; He commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord.
But had John lived till Christ had suffered, he would have preached Repentance, and Faith, and administred Baptism as we now do, viz. in and by Christ, who hath suffered; and this is all the difference, I say, that I know of, (which is only circumstantial) between the preaching the Gospel, and baptizing, before the Death of Christ, and that after his Death; wherefore the word of the Gospel under John, and after Christ's Death and Resurrection, is called the very same Word; and the Word that Peter preached to Cornelius and his House, is said to begin from John's Baptism, as the same Word which John came preaching; so that the Baptism with which John came baptizing, continues still, and was preached and practised by Command from Christ, by the Mouth of Peter, on Disciples believing, in that very place