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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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3. As touching Prayer, that is a Branch of Natural Religion, or a Moral Duty, and therefore quite different from this the Controversy is about; yet that it is positively enjoined and commanded in the Gospel also,1 we deny not; Pray always, pray without ceasing, and for every thing give Thanks. What can be more plain? Besides, we sin not if we pray thrice a day, or seven times a day; therefore Prayer is unadvisedly and improperly mentioned by you upon this account.
4. As touching Women's receiving the Lord's-Supper, that is proved more than by Consequences: Let a Man examine himself, i. e. Man or Woman, for so the word [Greek or Hebrew] in the Greek, and Adam in the Hebrew signify. There is one Mediator between God and Man. Is not the Woman comprehended as clearly as the Man? Are not Male and Female all one in Christ Jesus? Gal. 3.28. And, as we have lately told your cavilling Brethren the Athenian Society, did you never read of the Figure Sylepsis or Conceptio, that comprehends the less worthy under the more worthy, indignioris sub digniore? As for Example, Quid tu & soror facitis; ego & matter miseri perimus; tu & uxor qui adfuistis testes estete; and is no less true in Divinity: See that full Text, 1 Cor. 6.16. [Greek or Hebrew], they two shall be one Flesh. Mary the Mother of Jesus, and the other good Women who were Christ's Disciples, were of the number of the hundred and twenty Disciples who brake Bread with the three thousand that were added to them, Acts 2. 'Tis said