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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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Beza, 1on Mat. 3. 11. saith, the word Baptizo signifies to dye, by dipping or washing.
- 1Beza.
Selden saith,1 That the Jews took that Baptism wherein the whole Body was not baptized, to be void.
- 1De Jure Nat. &c. l. 2. c. 2.
Mr. Daniel Rogers saith,1 That the Minister is to dip in Water, as the meetest Act the word Baptizo notes it, for the Greeks wanted not other ⟨p. 29⟩words to express any other Act besides Dipping, if the Institution could bear it. What resemblance of the Burial and Resurrection of Christ is in Sprinkling? All Antiquity and Scripture confirm, that it was Dipping.
- 1Treatise of Sacr. par. 1. c. 8. p. 177.