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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. We will examine your Similitude, of which you seem very full,
Suppose, say you, a Person, Owner of a great Flock of Sheep, should command his Shepherd to shear all his Sheep, and give them an Earmark to know them, and he leaves out all the Lambs (which perhaps made up half the Fold) unmarked; Can the Shepherd be supposed to have done his Duty? Suppose he says the Lambs were very young, and uncapable of shearing: True, says the Owner, but were they not capable of marking.
Suppose, say you, a Person, Owner of a great Flock of Sheep, should command his Shepherd to shear all his Sheep, and give them an Earmark to know them, and he leaves out all the Lambs (which perhaps made up half the Fold) unmark'd; Can the Shepherd be suppos'd to have done his Duty? Suppose he says the Lambs were very young, and uncapable of shearing: True, says the Owner, but were they not capable of marking.
Infants, say you, are not capable of teaching, but are they not capable of Christ's Earmark [Baptism] by which Christ's Sheep are distinguished from the Devils Goats? But according to your Principles, Christ's Fold has no Lambs in it, but all Sheep, such a Fold as the World never yet heard of. See Isa. 40.11.