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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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3. I wonder (as I have formerly said) what Faith 'tis you suppose to be in Infants: When will your Trumpet give a certain Sound? Is it the Faith of the Church, as Thomas Aquinas asserts, which is entailed upon all who are within the Pale thereof, or in her Bosom, to use your words? Or is it an imputative Faith from the Parents, as Musculus, you, and others maintain? Or is it the Faith of the Gossips or Sureties, as your Church says,1 i. e. others believe for them? [Wonder, O Heavens, and be astonished, O Earth ! are these thy Teachers, O England?]; Have they a justifying Faith, as Mr. Baxter intimates? Or a dogmatical Faith only, as in Mr. Blake's sense? Some say 'tis a Physical Faith, some a Metaphysical, and some a Hyperphysical Faith. Some say they are born Believers,2 others say they are made Believers by Baptism.
3. I wonder (as I have formerly said) what Faith 'tis you suppose to be in Infants: When will your Trumpet give a certain Sound? Is it the Faith of the Church, as Thomas Aquinas asserts, which is intailed upon all who are within the Pale thereof, or in her Bosom, to use your words? Or is it an imputative Faith from the Parents, as Musculus, you, and others maintain? Or is it the Faith of the Gossips or Sureties, as your Church says,1 i. e. others believe for them? [Wonder, O Heavens, and be astonished, O Earth ! are these thy Teachers, O England?]; Have they a justifying Faith, as Mr. Baxter intimates? Or a dogmatical Faith only, as in Mr. Blake's sense? Some say 'tis a Physical Faith, some a Metaphysical, and some a Hyperphysical Faith. Some say they are born Believers,2 others say they are made Believers by Baptism.
- 1Various thoughts among Pedo-Baptists, what Faith Infants have.
- 2See Mr. Danvers.