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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 3
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And no doubt, was there indeed such a Divine Habit,1 or Seed of Grace infused into Infants in their Baptism, but it would appear in their Lives when grown up. Such as is the Cause, such is the Effect, or Product that is produced, i. e. if Regeneration was wrought in all the Infants you Rantize, Holiness would be the Effect of it, when they come to Age of Understanding; but all Men see the contrary, i. e. they show their evil and unclean Natures as soon, nay, before they can speak plain; therefore you preach false Doctrine, if you affirm that Baptism renovates or changes their Nature. Nay, and were it so, all that are baptized would be saved; Shall one Soul who passes through Regeneration miss of Salvation?
And no doubt, was there indeed such a Divine Habit,1 or Seed of Grace infused into Infants in their Baptism, but it would appear in their Lives when grown up. Such as is the Cause, such is the Effect, or Product that is produced, i. e. if Regeneration was wrought in all the Infants you Rantize, Holiness would be the Effect of it, when they come to Age of Understanding; but all Men see the contrary, i. e. they shew their evil and unclean Natures as soon, nay, before they can speak plain; therefore you preach false Doctrine, if you affirm that Baptism renovates or changes their Nature. Nay, and were it so, all that are baptized would be saved; Shall one Soul who passes through Regeneration miss of Salvation?
- 1Seed or Habit of Grace remains where infused, and its Effects will appear.
Reverend Stephen Charnock, tho a Pedo-baptist, speaks more like a Divine and Logician than you do. See his Book on Regenerate. sol. p. 75. ⟨p. 81⟩saith he, Many Men take Baptism for Regeneration; the Ancients usually give it this term; one calls our Saviour's Baptism, his Regeneration