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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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4. If it was a Custom among the Jews, it must be a sacred Custom, I mean a Custom that God appointed and commanded them to observe, or else a human Tradition or vain Custom: If it had been a Mosaical Rite given by God himself to the Jews, Christ be sure abolished it, and nailed it to his Cross, with all its fellows, and 'tis gone for ever since he hath not given it out a new.
4. If it was a Custom among the Jews, it must be a sacred Custom, I mean a Custom that God appointed and commanded them to observe, or else a human Tradition or vain Custom: If it had been a Mosaical Rite given by God himself to the Jews, Christ besure abolished it, and nailed it to his Cross, with all its fellows, and 'tis gone for ever since he hath not given it out a new.
Take this Argument.
That Custom among the Jews that God never commanded, nor is any where given by Moses ⟨p. 24⟩unto them, who was faithful in all his House, was no Ordinance of God, but a mere human Tradition. But the Custom among the Jews of baptizing the Heathen and their Children, who were admitted into their Church, was never commanded of God, nor any where given unto them by Moses, who was faithful in all his House. Ergo, That Custom was no Ordinance of God, but a mere human Tradition.
That Custom among the Jews that God never commanded, nor is any where given by Moses ⟨p. 24⟩unto them, who was faithful in all his House, was no Ordinance of God, but a meer human Tradition. But the Custom among the Jews of baptizing the Heathen and their Children, who were admitted into their Church, was never commanded of God, nor any where given unto them by Moses, who was faithful in all his House. Ergo, That Custom was no Ordinance of God, but a meer human Tradition.