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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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5. Sir, You seem to be no true Son of the Church of England, for they it seems positively affirm, Repentance, whereby a Person forsakes Sin, and Faith, whereby he steadfastly believes the Promise of God made to him in that Sacrament, is required of those who are to be baptized; nay and of little Babes too, therefore the Sureties answer for them, that they do believe and repent, or forsake ⟨p. 89⟩the Devil and all his Works, &c. the Child answers by Proxy. Your Church baptizes no Child but as a Believer, and a true penitent Person. What is this your Argument good for? even nothing. How now, are you wiser than the Church? no doubt she believes as we do. All that are proper Subjects of Baptism, are comprehended in the Commission, and must be as such, whether Adult or Infants, who profess Faith and Repentance: But you it may be foresaw the Snake in the Grass, viz. that God-fathers and God-mothers is a Tradition, and none of God's Appointment; nor are they able to perform those things for the Child, which they promise for him, and in his Name. And therefore make use of another Argument, and would have them baptized without Faith, or upon their Parents Faith, of which your Church speaks nothing.
5. Sir, You seem to be no true Son of the Church of England, for they it seems positively affirm, Repentance, whereby a Person forsakes Sin, and Faith, whereby he stedfastly believes the Promise of God made to him in that Sacrament, is required of those who are to be baptized; nay and of little Babes too, therefore the Sureties answer for them, that they do believe and repent, or forsake ⟨p. 89⟩the Devil and all his Works, &c. the Child answers by Proxy. Your Church baptizes no Child but as a Believer, and a true penitent Person. What is this your Argument good for? even nothing. How now, are you wiser than the Church? no doubt she believes as we do. All that are proper Subjects of Baptism, are comprehended in the Commission, and must be as such, whether Adult or Infants, who profess Faith and Repentance: But you it may be foresaw the Snake in the Grass, viz. that God-fathers and God-mothers is a Tradition, and none of God's Appointment; nor are they able to perform those things for the Child, which they promise for him, and in his Name. And therefore make use of another Argument, and would have them baptized without Faith, or upon their Parents Faith, of which your Church speaks nothing.