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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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2. And does it follow, because God commanded Abraham to circumcise his Male Infants, that you may command Parents to baptize their Infants, both Males and Females, who are not the Subjects Jesus Christ has commanded in the New Testament to be baptized? And do not you herein make your selves wiser than God? O how justly may this Arrogancy be retorted back upon your selves!
Your Brethren,1 the Athenian Society, in two or three of their Mercuries, tell us, in some parts of the World they circumcise their Females; and no doubt of it, they have as good (or better) Authority so to do, as you have to baptize Children. See Vol. 7. Numb. 7. Where they say, The Creophagians, Arabians, some of the Descendants of Ishmael, did judicially circumcise not only Males but Females. Also the Ethiopians, especially in the Dominions of Prester John, circumcise Females. And for further Information, they direct to Bartho. de Antiquit. Puerperi, Bellonius, Caelius Rhodoginus, and several ⟨p. 85⟩other Histories and Authors. May be they argue as you do, the Females are capable as the Males, of the Benefits of Circumcision, and therefore may Circumcise them.
- 1Athenian Society say Females were circumcised by some People formerly.
3. Our Argument, I must tell you again,1