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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. Your second Observation is,1 The Duration and Continuance of this Covenant made with Abraham, the Lord calls it an Everlasting Covenant, &c.
- 1Mr. Burkits 2d Arg.
Answ. You might have left out this, only it helps to add to the number; you have answered this your self, in saying, The Hebrew word for Everlasting, sometimes signifies no more than a long continuance of Time. Sir, We know it very well; and those Mosaical Rites that ended in Christ, are said to be for Everlasting. But when the Lord saith, he will be a Person's God, for ever and ever, or everlastingly, it denotes his being so to all Eternity: But God never said he would be the God everlastingly, or to all Eternity, to all who were concerned in the Covenant of Circumcision: Nor was he Ishmael's God so, though Circumcised; and has he not cast off that whole Nation of the Jews, with whom he made that Covenant? and is not so their God now, though he is, I confess, to all Eternity, or everlastingly, the God of all Abraham's Spiritual Seed, viz. all true Believers in Christ.
Answ. You might have left out this, only it helps to add to the number; you have answered this your self, in saying, The Hebrew word for Everlasting, sometimes signifies no more than a long continuance of Time. Sir, We know it very well; and those Mosaical Rites that ended in Christ, are said to be for Everlasting. But when the Lord saith, he will be a Person's God, for ever and ever, or everlastingly, it denotes his being so to all Eternity: But God never said he would be the God everlastingly, or to all Eternity, to all who were concern'd in the Covenant of Circumcision: Nor was he Ishmael's God so, though Circumcised; and has he not cast off that whole Nation of the Jews, with whom he made that Covenant? and is not so their God now, though he is, I confess, to all Eternity, or everlastingly, the God of all Abraham's Spiritual Seed, viz. all true Believers in Christ.