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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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Answ. Paul cannot mean, Christ sent him not at all to baptize; or, that the Gospel he was commanded to preach, had not Baptism enjoined to be preached and practised, as an inseparable Companion of it, (because his Lord and Master, as we have showed, hath joined Preaching and Baptizing together in his great Commission) Mat. 28. 19, 20. and so to continue to the End of the World.
Answ. Paul cannot mean, Christ sent him not at all to baptize; or, that the Gospel he was commanded to preach, had not Baptism enjoyned to be preached and practised, as an inseparable Companion of it, (because his Lord and Master, as we have shewed, hath joyned Preaching and Baptizing together in his great Commission) Mat. 28. 19, 20. and so to continue to the End of the World.
Moreover, Teaching and Baptism, Faith and Baptism, Repentance and Baptism were always preached and practised together: But he means this of Baptizing was not his chief business; nor did Christ require him absolutely to the actual dispensing of the Ordinance of Baptism with his own Hands, but to preach the Gospel, in which Baptism as well as Repentance and Faith were contained, and as a sacred Ordinance thereof, which he was sent to preach as well as any other Gospel-Institution, and that he did preach it, otherwise he could not have said as he did, Acts 20. that he had not shunned to declare the whole Counsel of God, and so, that it was done too by himself or some other, but it was not in his Commission, that he must administer it in but his own P•rion; for it is evident, the Administration or Act of Baptizing was not tied up to the Apostles, or to the more ordinary Ministers, but that any faithful gifted-Disciples might administer it as well as they; nor doth the Efficacy of Baptism depend in the least upon the Quality of the Person administering of it, whether it be ⟨p. 21⟩