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 ...

Title

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 ...

Author

Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.

Publication

London :: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Nathaniel Crouch ...,

1689.

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Subject terms

Smythies, William, d. 1715. -- Unworthy non-communicant.

Baptism -- Early works to 1800.

Infant baptism -- Early works to 1800.

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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47535.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE EPISTLE To all that love our Lord Jesus Christ in Sincerity.
• Advertisement.
• CHAP. I. Wherein the Baptism of Water is proved to be that intended in the Commission, and so a standing Ordinance till the End of the World.
• CHAP. II. Shewing what Baptism is from the literal and true genuine and proper Significa∣tion of the word Baptism.
• CHAP. III. Proving that Baptism is dipping, plunging, and covering the Body all over in Water from the Practice of the Pri∣mitive Times.
• CHAP. IV. Proving that Baptism is Dipping, Plung∣ing, or Burying the whole Body in Wa∣ter, In the Name, &c. from the Spi∣ritual or Metaphorical signification of this Gospel-Ordinance or Administra∣tion.
• CHAP. V. Proving Baptism to be Immerging or Dip∣ping, from those Typical and Metapho∣rical Baptisms spoken of in Scripture.
• CHAP. VI. Proving Believers, or Adult Persons, on∣ly to be the Subjects of Baptism, from Christ's great Commission, Mat. 28.
• CHAP. VII. Proving Believers to be the only true Sub∣jects of Baptism, from the Apostles Doctrine, and the Practice of the Pri∣mitive Churches.
• CHAP. VIII. Proving Believers the only true Subjects of Baptism from the special ends of this holy Sacrament.
• CHAP. IX. Containing several other Arguments, pro∣ving, why not Infants, but Believers only, are the true Subjects of Bap∣tism.
• CHAP. X. Wherein the great Arguments, and pre∣tended Scripture-Proofs for Infant-Bap∣tism, concerning the Covenant Circum∣cision, and Infants Church-membership, are Examined, and Answered.
• CHAP. XI. Wherein many other pretended Scripture-Poofs and Arguments for the baptizing of Infants are answered, as that, Suffer little Children to come unto me, &c. and, Except a Man be born of Wa∣ter and of the Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, &c.
• CHAP. XII. Containing an Answer to several other Arguments brought for Infant-Baptism.
• CHAP. XIII. Shewing the evil Consequences, Absurdities, and Contradictions, that attend Infant-Baptism, as 'tis Asserted and Practised.
• CHAP. XIV. Proving Baptism a great and glorious Ordinance, and that 'tis initiating or an In-let into the Church.
• The Table of the Contents.