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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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13. Circumcision by the Doctrine of St. Paul, was a Privilege if they kept the Law […] for, Circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the Law; but if thou break the Law, thy Circumcision is made Uncircumcision, or a Nullity, and profiteth thee nothing, that is, if thou keep not the Law perfectly. And thus speak our late Annotators on the place; If thou [Jew] keep the Law perfectly, to which Circumcision obligeth, Gal. 5.3. If otherwise thou transgressest the Law, thy Circumcision avails thee nothing, it gives thee no Privilege above the Uncircumcised. What is now become (this being so) of that mighty Privilege Abraham's Infant […] (as such) had by Circumcision, if the chief Profit or Privilege was, because unto them the Law should be given, which could not give Life, but was a Covenant of Works? then the chiefest Profit lay not in it, as it was an Ordinance of Initiation into the Church: Sure, had Paul been of your Judgment, he would have rather past by that Privilege, when he spoke of Circumcision, which he calls the chief, and have said, chiefly in that it was a Seal of Infant Church-Membership. But since he speaks the quite contrary, who shall we believe, you, or the great Apostle of the Gentiles? And evident it is, he confirms the same Doctrine, Gal. 5.3. For I ••stify to […] Man that is Circumcised, that he is a D••tor to keep the whole Law. And,
13. Circumcision by the Doctrine of St. Paul, was a Priviledg if they kept the Law 〈…〉 for, Circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the Law; but if thou break the Law, thy Circum•ision is made Ʋncircumcision, or a Nullity, and profiteth thee nothing, that is, if thou keep not the Law perfectly. And thus speak our late Annotators on the place; If thou [Jew] keep the Law perfectly, to which Circumcision obligeth, Gal. 5.3. If otherwise thou transgressest the Law, thy Circumcision avails thee nothing, it gives thee no Priviledg above the Uncircumcised. What is now become (this being so) of that mighty Priviledg Abraham's Infant (as such) had by Circumcision, if the chief Profit or Priviledg was, because unto them the Law should be given, which could not give Life, but was a Covenant of Works? then the chiefest Profit lay not in it, as it was an Ordinance of Initiation into the Church: Sure, had Paul been of your Judgment, he would have rather past by that Priviledg, when he spoke of Circumcision, which he calls the chief, and have said, chiefly in that it was a Seal of Infant Church-Membership. But since he speaks the quite contrary, who shall we believe, you, or the great Apostle of the Gentiles? And evident it is, he confirms the same Doctrine,