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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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If what we have said here in Answer to this Objection were well considered, it will appear to confute such who object against the practice of Baptism, for want of a due and lawful Minister or Administrator, endued with an extraordinary Call and Power to work Miracles.
If what we have said here in Answer to this Objection were well considered, it will appear to confute such who object against the practice of Baptism, for want of a due and lawful Minister or Administrator, indued with an extraordinary Call and Power to work Miracles.
Sith the Act of baptizing is a more inferior thing than that of preaching the Gospel, and that any gifted Disciple may baptize; all that is recorded of Ananias's fitness or qualification (who baptized Paul) is, that he was a Disciple, Acts 9. 10. And there was a certain Disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and there is no cause to doubt but many such Disciples were employed in baptizing those 3000 converted by Peter's Sermon, Acts 2. so that there is no reason to tie up this Administration to ordinary Ministers or Pastors of Churches, much less to the great Apostles, or such who have an extraordinary Mission, sith Paul saith he was not sent to baptize, intimating, as you heard, that that work was not limited to the Apostolical Office, or that it must be done by Men extraordinarily qualified and called forth, and none else.
Sith the Act of baptizing is a more inferior thing than that of preaching the Gospel, and that any gifted Disciple may baptize; all that is recorded of Ananias's fitness or qualification (who baptized Paul) is, that he was a Disciple, Acts 9. 10. And there was a certain Disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and there is no cause to doubt but many such Disciples were imploied in baptizing those 3000 converted by Peter's Sermon,