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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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THE Rector Rectified, and Corrected: OR, Infant-Baptism Unlawful. › Chapter 2
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CHAP. II.
Wherein the grand Argument for Infant-Baptism taken from the Covenant made with Abraham, is fully confuted. Proving the Covenant of Circumcision was not a Covenant of Grace, wherein both Mr. Burkit and the Athenian Society are clearly answered. The Legal Covenant and Fleshly Seed being under the Gospel both cast out, the Plea for Pedo-baptism from the old Covenant-Right is vanquished.
I Come now to examine your second grand Argument for the Baptism of Infants, which you in Pag. 8. laid down thus, viz.
1If the Infants of believing Christians under the Gospel are in Covenant with God, as the Jewish Infants under the Law were; then the Seal of the Covenant, which is Baptism, may and ought to be administered to them.
1If the Infants of believing Christians under the Gospel are in Covenant with God, as the Jewish Infants under the Law were; then the Seal of the Covenant, which is Baptism, may and ought to be administred to them.