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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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That which Mr. Flavel hath said in his last Reply,1 (in his Book called, A succinct and seasonable Discourse) to Mr. Cary, is mainly to prove that there is but one Covenant of Works, pag. 217, 218, &c.
- 1Mr. Flavel answered, in what he says in his Book, p. 217.
To which I answer, by way of Concession, yet must say, that Covenant had several Ministrations and Additions, as had also the Covenant of Grace; because the Covenant of Works was made with Adam, by which he stood in the time of his Innocency, justified and accepted by virtue thereof.
Could not God give forth a second Ministration or Transcript of his Righteous and Holy Law; though not to Justification, yet to aggravate his Sin, and so to his just Condemnation▪ And doth not St. Paul assert the same thing, Rom. 3.19, 20. compared with Rom. 7.13. That Sin by the Commandment (or Law) might become exceeding sinful? So Gal. 3.19.