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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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Proposition I.
Your first is this, viz. That Baptism by Water is a Sacrament of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, for the solemn admission of the Party baptized into the visible Church; and to be a Sign and Seal unto them of the Covenant of Grace.
Answ. You and I are thus far agreed; save only I deny that Baptism is any where in God's Word, called a Seal of the Covenant of Grace; for if it was, then all Persons baptized have all the Blessings of the Covenant of Grace made sure to them. I know no other Seal of the Covenant of Grace, but the Holy Spirit; I mean, that seals those Covenant-Blessings and Spiritual Privileges to our Souls; see Ephes. 1. 13, 14. Chap. 4.30.
Answ. You and I are thus far agreed; save only I deny that Baptism is any where in God's Word, called a Seal of the Covenant of Grace; for if it was, then all Persons baptized have all the Blessings of the Covenant of Grace made sure to them. I know no other Seal of the Covenant of Grace, but the Holy Spirit; I mean, that seals those Covenant-Blessings and Spiritual Priviledges to our Souls; see Ephes. 1. 13, 14. Chap. 4.30.