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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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As to your Comparison, 'tis not worth mentioning: Baptism (as I have told you) doth not cure the Soul of Sin, but 'tis the Blood of Christ applied by Faith: And now do we say, no Child can have the Benefit of that Sovereign Remedy, because not capable to believe, by reason Men and Women must receive it by Faith, or perish. God (as Dr. Taylor observes) may have many ways to magnify his Grace, through Jesus Christ, to them, which we know not of, who die in their Infancy, yet have we no Authority to baptize them, any more than to give them the Lord's Supper.
6. Sir, You talk at a strange rate, as if you regarded not what you say or affirm, while you bring Similitudes to teach People to believe Baptism is the Balm to cure the Contagion of Sin; and as if the application of it saved a little Babe from Hell, and they guilty of murdering the Souls of their Children, who deny to baptize them. I had thought you would not have lain greater ⟨p. 90⟩stress upon Children's Baptism, than on Children's Circumcision, since you would fain have them run parallel-wise.
6. Sir, You talk at a strange rate, as if you regarded not what you say or affirm, while you bring Similitudes to teach People to believe Baptism is the Balm to cure the Contagion of Sin; and as if the application of it saved a little Babe from Hell, and they guilty of murdering the Souls of their Children, who deny to baptize them. I had thought you would not have lain greater ⟨p. 90⟩stress upon Childrens Baptism, than on Childrens Circumcision, since you would fain have them run parallel-wise.