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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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True in a less proper or remote sense, because thing that are washed, are commonly dipped or covered all over in Water, it is put for washing, Luke 11. 38. Heb. 9. 10. Mark 7. 4. And we dare modestly assert, that no Greek Author of any credit, whether Heathenish or Christian, has ever put Baptizing for Sprinkling, or used those words promiscuously; the Greeks have a peculiar word to express Sprinkling, viz. [Greek or Hebrew], Rantizo, which as a Learned* Author observes, is ever used in Scripture by the Holy Spirit, when he speaks of such a thing as […] yea, 'tis used three times in one Chapter, viz. Heb. 9. 13, 19, 21. and is always translated Sprinkling: Neither is there, saith he, any one place of Scripture, wherein the word [Greek or Hebrew] is rendered to baptize, or used to signify baptizing: Neither is there one Scripture wherein the word [Greek or Hebrew], Baptizo, is rendered Sprinkling, or used to signify such a thing as Sprinkling. This being so, and certainly so it is; How strangely hath the World, and many Godly Christians, been deceived, thinking they have been Baptized, when in truth they never were to this day, but only Rantized.
True in a less proper or remote sense, because thing that are washed, are commonly dipped or covered all over in Water, it is put for washing, Luke 11. 38. Heb. 9. 10. Mark 7. 4. And we dare modestly assert, that no Greek Author of any credit, whether Heathenish or Christian, has ever put Baptizing for Sprinkling, or used those words promiscuously; the Greeks have a peculiar word to express Sprinkling, viz. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Rantizo, which as a Learned*