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The rector rectified and corrected, or, Infant-baptism unlawful being a sober answer to a…
The rector rectified and corrected, or, Infant-baptism unlawful being a sober answer to a late pamphlet entitled An argumentative and practical discourse of infant-baptism, published by Mr. William Burkit, rector of Mildin in Suffolk : wherein all his arguments for pedo-baptism are refuted and the necessity of immersion, i.e. dipping, is evidenced, and the people falsely called Anabaptists are cleared from those unjust reproaches and calumnies cast upon them : together with a reply to the Athenian gazette added to their 5th volume about infant-baptism : with some remarks upon Mr. John Flavel's last book in answer to Mr. Philip Cary / by Benjamin Keach.The rector rectified and corrected, or, Infant-baptism unlawful being a sober answer to a late pamphlet entituled An argumentative and practical discourse of infant-baptism, published by Mr. William Burkit, rector of Mildin in Suffolk : wherein all his arguments for pedo-baptism are refuted and the necessity of immersion, i.e. dipping, is evidenced, and the people falsly called Anabaptists are cleared from those unjust reproaches and calumnies cast upon them : together with a reply to the Athenian gazette added to their 5th volume about infant-baptism : with some remarks upon Mr. John Flavel's last book in answer to Mr. Philip Cary / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by John Harris, 1692
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2. Can any wise Man, who would do nothing in God's Service without a sufficient Rule or Warrant from the Word of God, think this a good Argument for Infant-Baptism? I must tell you, (as I have some of your Brethren, called, The Athenian Society) That a Popish Tradition is every way as good as a Jewish one. You were better plead thus, The Romish Church, without any Warrant from God's Word, received Infant-Baptism as an unwritten Apostolical Tradition, and in some Councils early.1 Quicunque parvulos recentes ab uteris Matrum Baptizandos esse negat, ⟨p. 22⟩Anathema esto. Milieu. Can. 2. and Anathematized or cursed all who should deny that new-born Infants were to be baptized; why do you fly to the fabulous and idle Traditions of the Jewish Rabbins for your Childish Baptism, since you have the Testimony of so many Romish Doctors, and General Councils, who positively affirm you ought to baptize your Children? Sure the Authority of the latter is as good as the former.
2. Can any wise Man, who would do nothing in God's Service without a sufficient Rule or Warrant from the Word of God, think this a good Argument for Infant-Baptism? I must tell you, (as I have some of your Brethren, called, The Athenian Society) That a Popish Tradition is every way as good as a Jewish one. You were better plead thus, The Romish Church, without any Warrant from God's Word, received Infant-Baptism as an unwritten Apostolical Tradition, and in some Councils early.1 Quicunque parvulos recentes ab uteris Matrum Baptizandos esse negat, ⟨p. 22⟩Anathema esto. Milev. Can. 2. and Anathematized or cursed all who should deny that new-born Infants were to be baptized; why do you fly to the fabulous and idle Traditions of the Jewish Rabbins for your Childish Baptism, since you have the Testimony of so many Romish Doctors, and General Councils, who positively affirm you ought to baptize your Children? Sure the Authority of the latter is as good as the former.
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