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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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But you proceed in your Epistle and say. One of their Teaching-Disciples (meaning my self) having set up in our Neighbourhood for making Proselytes, by Re-baptizing them i• a nasty Horse-pond, into which the Filth of the adjacent Stable occasionally flows, and out of which his deluded Converts come forth with so much Filthiness upon them, that they rather resembled Creatures arising out of the Bottomless-Pit, then Candidates of holy Baptism: and all this before a promiscuous Multitude, in the Face of the Sun.
Sir, I wonder how you come to publish such a notorious Untruth to the World: it seems to me you neither regard your own Reputation, nor keeping of a good Conscience towards God: you ought to repent of this your great Rashness, in asserting such abominable Falsehoods. You will find what you have affirme• is contradicted by the Testimony of many sober Persons; nor indeed is there any ground for any body to believe wha• you say was true, since you say I did it in the sight of such a promiscuous Multitude. Had it been such a Pond as you say, do you suppose we would have baptized ⟨image 3⟩People in it, in the open sight of such a mixed Multitude? But, Sir, when did you see any to come out of the bottomless-Pit, that you know so well how they look?
Sir, I wonder how you come to publish such a notorious Untruth to the World: it seems to me you neither regard your own R•putation, nor keeping of a good Conscience towards God: you ought to repent of this your great Rashness, in asserting such abominable Falshoods. You will find what you have affirme• is contradicted by the Testimony of many sober Persons; nor indeed is there any ground for any body to believe wha• you say was true, since you say I did it in the sight of such a promiscuous Multitude. Had it been such a Pond as you say, do you suppose we would have baptized