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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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See what Confusion you Pedo-Baptists are in. An actual Faith you dare not say they have, because they have no Act of Understanding: Besides, how can any Man know they have Faith, since he never saw any sign of it? neither ⟨p. 93⟩was he told it, by any that could tell.
Object. But then, Pag. 19. you bring in our Objection: Infants are not capable of Ministerial Teaching, therefore not of Baptismal Washing; because Teaching must go before Baptizing, according to the order of the words in our Saviour's Commission, Mat. 28.19. Go, teach all Nations, baptizing them, &c.
Your Answer is, That it is a mighty Weakness to infer from the order of the words, the necessary order of things. St. Matthew sets Teaching before Baptizing; but St. Mark sets Baptizing before Teaching, Mark 1.4. so that no conclusive Argument can be drawn from hence either way.