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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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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*: this confers not Grace, but engageth to it: outward Water cannot convey inward Life: How can Water, an external thing, work upon the Soul in a Physical manner? Neither can it be proved, that ever the Spirit o• God is tied by any Promise, to apply himself to the Soul in a gracious Operation, when Water is applied to the Body. If it were so that all that were baptized were regenerated, then all that were baptized should be saved, or else the Doctrine of Perseverance falls to the ground. And again he says, That some indeed say that Regeneration is conferred in Baptism upon the Elect, and exerts it self afterwards in Conversion: But how so active a Principle as a spiritual Life, should lie dead and asleep so long, even many Years, which intervene between Baptism and Conversion, is not easily conceivable? So far Mr. Charnock.
Reverend Stephen Charnock, tho a Pedo-baptist, speaks more like a Divine and Logician than you do. See his Book on Regenerat. 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*: this confers not Grace, but ingageth to it: outward Water cannot convey inward Life: How can Water, an external thing, work upon the Soul in a Physical manner? Neither can it be proved, that ever the Spirit o• God is tied by any Promise, to apply himself to the Soul in a gracious Operation, when Water is applied to the Body. If it were so that all that were baptized were regenerated, then all that were baptized should be saved, or else the Doctrine of Perseverance falls to the ground. And again he says, That some indeed say that Regeneration is conferred in Baptism upon the Elect, and exerts it self afterwards in Conversion: But how so active a Principle as a spiritual Life, should lie dead and asleep so long, even many Years, which intervene between Baptism and Conversion, is not easily conceivable? So far Mr. Charnock.