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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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2. As a Token or Sign to them of the giving forth of the Law on Mount Sinai. He dealt his Laws and Statutes to Israel, he did not do so to any other Nation. This Rite therefore could not be a Gospel-Rite, nor the Covenant it was a sign of a Gospel-Covenant, in which the Gentile Christians are concerned: And thus the Apostle argues, Rom. 3. 1. What Advantage then hath th• Jew? or what Profit is there in Circumcision? ver. 2. Much every way; chiefly, because unto them were committed the Oracles of God. You may soon know the Nature of that Covenant made with Abraham's natural Seed; and of Circumcision, which was a Sign of it: The chiefest Privilege which attended it, was the giving to them, i. e. ⟨p. 58⟩the People of Israel, the Law of the Ten Commandments.
2. As a Token or Sign to them of the giving forth of the Law on Mount Sinai. He dealt his Laws and Statutes to Israel, he did not do so to any other Nation. This Rite therefore could not be a Gospel-Rite, nor the Covenant it was a sign of a Gospel-Covenant, in which the Gentile Christians are concerned: And thus the Apostle argues, Rom. 3. 1. What Advantage then hath th• Jew? or what Profit is there in Circumcision? ver. 2. Much every way; chiefly, because unto them were committed the Oracles of God. You may soon know the Nature of that Covenant made with Abraham's natural Seed; and of Circumcision, which was a Sign of it: The chiefest Priviledg which attended it, was the giving to them, i. e. ⟨p. 58⟩the People of Israel, the Law of the Ten Commandements.