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water_n	bread_n	lord_n	wine_n	3,679	5	7.3104	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47535	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 ...	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1689 (1689)	Wing K68; ESTC R17190	114,897	272

Person Nor is it any marvel when they did dip poor Children in VVater that some of them died sith they are not the true Subjects of Baptism if they had no doubt God would have preserved them as well as he did those Babes whom once he required to be Circumcised Can any believe God would command any such thing to be done that should endanger the Life of a Child that was doubtless a just Re●uke for the prophanation of Christ's blessed Ordinance he will one day I fear say Who hath required this at your hands Nay and who knows what Judgments and VVrath may come upon this Land for the abominable abuse of the Sacred Institution of Baptism God many times shews Men their Sin by the punishment he brings upon them if you are so fond of Humane Traditions and Innovations Object But why must the whole Body be dipp'd may not the Head be sufficient that being the principal Part Answ I must confess in a late Discourse I had with a Minister of the Church of England he pleaded for this seeing he could not defend Rantism But to give a direct Answer pray consider whether it be the Person viz. the Man or Woman or part of the Person that Christ commanded to be baptized if not the whole Body why might it not serve only to wash or dip the Hands But if it were the Hands only or the Feet or the Head only that was to be Baptized i. e. dipped a small Vessel of Water would have served and no need for Christ or John to have gone into Rivers and Places where there was much VVater to baptize 2. It is not said John baptized him i. e. our blessed Saviour not part of him But as the blessed Virgin bore him in her VVomb and brought him forth and laid him in a Manger so John baptized or dipped him that is his whole Body into Jordan or in the River Jordan Moreover 't is said Acts 8. 12. They were baptized both Men and Women that is the Bodies the whole Bodies of those Men and Women and not some Part or Members of them If this be not granted we shall be run into many strange Absurdities almost every where in reading the Scriptures 3. To put this out of doubt 't is evident the whole Body ought to be dipp'd or baptiz'd because as we shall shew in the next Chapter Baptism is a Figure of the Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ nay called a Burial Now a Person is not said to be buried that is not totally covered in the Earth no more can a Man be said to be baptiz'd except he be covered all over in the VVater 4. VVe have shewed how all the Learned agree and positively assert that Baptism was administred in the Primitive Times by a total dipping the Body in VVater And indeed at first when this Innovation of Rantism came in they used to sprinkle the Body all over being sure it was not one Part but the whole Body that was to be baptized and so they Rantiz'd the whole Body But you are gone here too for you in your Practice and in your own Sense Baptize but the Face only so that all your People are unbaptized Persons as evident as any thing can be take it how you will if it should be granted I mean that Sprinkling is Baptism CHAP. IV. Proving that Baptism is Dipping Plunging or Burying the whole Body in Water In the Name c. from the Spiritual or Metaphorical signification of this Gospel-Ordinance or Administration TO make it appear yet more fully that Baptism is not sprinkling pouring nor any other thing than dipping plunging or covering of the Body in VVater we shall proceed to examine what it was ordained for by our Lord Jesus Christ to hold forth or to be a Sign or Representation of for like as in the Holy Sacrament of the Supper it behoveth us to know what the breaking of the Bread and pouring forth of the VVine signifies or are Figures of so in like manner we ought with as great care to endeavour to know what is held forth or represented to us as the Holy Signs of the Blessed Sacrament of Baptism for as all true Christians readily do confess and agree with us that the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper is not cannot be rightly nor truly administred if the great Ends and Design of Jesus Christ in the Institution of it are not answered thereby or what it was ordained and appointed to signify plainly held forth and represented in its administration but it is contrarywise a great abuse and prophanation of it and from hence we and all true Protestants always say Let us keep to the exact words of the Institution and manner of its first Celebration that so the great Things signified both by the breaking the Bread and pouring forth the VVine may clearly appear and be represented in the Administration thereof Now then this is that which we affirm viz. That as the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was ordained to hold forth the breaking of Christ's Body and the pouring forth of his Blood So in like manner the Sacrament of Baptism was instituted and appointed to hold forth Christ was really dead buried and that he arose again for our Justification And that this is so we shall not only prove it from the plain Authority of God's VVord but by the joint Testimony of almost all famous VVriters and Divines we have met with Ancient or Modern And indeed we cannot but be much affected with the great Love and Goodness of our Blessed Saviour in the Institution of these two great Ordinances it being his gracious Design and Condescention hereby to hold forth or preach as I may say to the very sight of our visible Eyes by these fit and proper Mediums the glorious Doctrine of his Death Burial and Resurrection which in the Ministration of the VVord is preached or held forth to the hearing of our Ears that so we might the better and more effectually be established and grounded in the sure and stedfast belief thereof which is indeed absolutely necessary to Salvation as the Apostle doth plainly testify 1 Cor. 15. 1. 2 3 4. Moreover Brethren I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you which also you received and wherein you stand vers 1. By which also you are saved if you keep in memory what I preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain vers 2. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how Christ died for our Sins according to the Scripture vers 3. And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures vers 4. This being so let none blame us for contending so earnestly for this Ordinance according to the Primitive Purity or its Original Glory wherein according to the gracious Design of Jesus Christ we daily receive in beholding the Administration of this Sacrament as well as in the Lord's Supper what is represented