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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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2. I ask you how Abraham (who God commanded to be Circumcised, as a Seal of the Righteousness of that Faith HE had before circumcised) could know he ought to circumcise his Son Isaac, &c. who had no such Faith, had not God given him an express Command to do it? Had it not been in the words of his Commission, durst he, think you, have done it? Be sure if he had, he had sinned in doing that which God commanded him not: So, and in like manner, since our Lord Jesus expressly in his Commission, commanded none to be baptized but such who are first taught, unless he had added, as in Abraham's Case, viz. when an Heathen is converted to the Faith, and baptized, you may baptize ⟨p. 97⟩his Infants also; how dare you add such Additions to Christ's Commission without his Authority, and so make the World believe, if you could, our blessed Saviour gave forth an imperfect Commission to his Disciples, which all Men must confess is the only Warrant and Rule of all Ministers to act by in the case of baptizing to the end of the World? And doth he not say, Add thou not to his Word, lest he reprove thee, and thou art found to be a Liar; by fathering that on Christ which he never said nor intended?
2. I ask you how Abraham (who God commanded to be Circumcised, as a Seal of the Righteousness of that Faith HE had before circumcised) could know he ought to circumcise his Son Isaac, &c. who had no such Faith, had not God given him an express Command to do it? Had it not been in the words of his Commission, durst he, think you, have done it? Be sure if he had, he had sinned in doing that which God commanded him not: So, and in like manner, since our Lord Jesus expresly in his Commission, commanded none to be baptized but such who are first taught, unless he had added, as in Abraham's Case, viz. when an Heathen is converted to the Faith, and baptized, you may baptize ⟨p. 97⟩his Infants also; how dare you add such Additions to Christ's Commission without his Authority, and so make the World believe, if you could, our blessed Saviour gave forth an imperfect Commission to his Disciples, which all Men must confess is the only Warrant and Rule of all Ministers to act by in the case of baptizing to the end of the World? And doth he not say, Add thou not to his Word, lest he reprove thee, and thou art found to be a Liar; by fathering that on Christ which he never said nor intended?