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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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Suppose the King should send you with a Commission into a remote Plantation, and command you to act and do exactly according to the express words of the Commission, not to add to it, nor diminish from it, upon pain of being cast out of his Favour, and incur his Wrath and Curse; durst you to do otherwise in any thing, under pretence it was his meaning, whereas he plainly and fully in his Commission expressed in the Affirmative, how and what you should do in all Matters and things, and forbade you to add thereto? Read Rev. 22.18. For I testify unto every Man that heareth the words of the Prophecy of this Book, If any Man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him all the Plagues that are written in this Book, &c. Who told you what you say is the sense of our Saviour? Can any Man once think, since the Commission of Christ is a pure Gospel-Commission, and contains mere positive Laws and Rules, no ways referring to, nor depending on the Law or Command God gave to Abraham, that what you say can be true, and the Conclusions safe, certain, and warrantable? May not another say, with as good Authority, that our Saviour commands his Disciples to baptize all Nations, both Parents and Children too, whether they will or not, whether ⟨p. 98⟩they believe or not, whether Jews or Gentiles, Turks or Pagans? I wonder you are not afraid, who take liberty after this sort to sport (as it were) and play with, invert, alter and add unto the sacred Commission of the jealous God, and great King of Heaven and Earth.
Suppose the King should send you with a Commission into a remote Plantation, and command you to act and do exactly according to the express words of the Commission, not to add to it, nor diminish from it, upon pain of being cast out of his Favour, and incur his Wrath and Curse; durst you to do otherwise in any thing, under pretence it was his meaning, whereas he plainly and fully in his Commission expressed in the Affirmative, how and what you should do in all Matters and things, and forbad you to add thereto? Read Rev. 22.18. For I testify unto every Man that heareth the words of the Prophecy of this Book, If any Man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him all the Plagues that are written in this Book, &c. Who told you what you say is the sense of our Saviour? Can any Man once think, since the Commission of Christ is a pure Gospel-Commission, and contains meer positive Laws and Rules, no ways referring to, nor depending on the Law or Command God gave to Abraham, that what you say can be true, and the Conclusions safe, certain, and warrantable? May not another say, with as good Authority, that our Saviour commands his Disciples to baptize all Nations, both Parents and Children too, whether they will or not, whether