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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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4. I would know how you prove Baptism to be the Medicine appointed to cure the Soul of the Plague of Sin? Is not this to blind the Eyes of poor People,1 and make them think that an external Ordinance saves the Soul? If not thus, how can it be Cruelty, yea Murder, in Parents, to deny the Application of Baptism to their Children? The Ancient Fathers, from that in John 6.53. Unless a Man eat the Flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his Blood, he hath no Life in him; gave Infants the Lord's Supper, thinking our Saviour (like as the Papists do) meant that Sacrament, when indeed he meant only of […] by Faith on Christ crucified. But however, their Argument for giving Infants one Sacrament, was as good as yours for giving them the other: But when they are as capable to repent and believe, and are helped so to do as they are, and do eat Bread, let them have both Baptism and the Lord's Supper; and till then, if God's Word be the Rule of our Faith and Practice, (and not our own Fancies) they ought to have neither; yet the Remedy or Medicine, which is Christ's Blood, we deny not, but dying Infants may be capable of.
4. I would know how you prove Baptism to be the Medicine appointed to cure the Soul of the Plague of Sin? Is not this to blind the Eyes of poor People,1 and make them think that an external Ordinance saves the Soul? If not thus, how can it be Cruelty, yea Murder, in Parents, to deny the Application of Baptism to their Children? The Ancient Fathers, from that in John 6.53. Ʋnless a Man eat the Flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his Blood, he hath no Life in him; gave Infants the Lord's Supper, thinking our Saviour (like as the Papists do) meant that Sacrament, when indeed he meant only of 〈…〉 by Faith on Christ crucified. But however, their Argument for giving Infants one Sacrament, was as good as yours for giving them the other: But when they are as capable to repent and believe, and are helped so to do as they are, and do eat Bread, let them have both Baptism and the Lord's Supper; and till then, if God's Word be the Rule of our Faith and Practice, (and not our own Fancies) they ought to have neither; yet the Remedy or Medicine, which is Christ's Blood, we deny not, but dying Infants may be capable of.