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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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But, say you, or take the Argument thus, viz. Those whom Christ invites to him, and are received by him, his Ministers may not refuse, nor put from them. But Infants are by Christ ⟨p. 101⟩invited to him, and were received by him; therefore the Ministers of Christ may not, ought not, durst not refuse them into Communion with them, p. 21.
Answ. Christ invited Multitudes to come unto him, and he received them so far as to feed them with Barley-Loaves and Fishes, and to the Blessing of healing them of their bodily Distempers: May his Ministers therefore receive all such into their Communion?
2. In the days of Christ when he was on Earth, there were many who are said to come unto him, whom he might receive into his Presence and Company, yet his Ministers might not baptize them, nor receive them into their spiritual Communion:1 nor indeed so you dare not receive Infants, I mean into your Communion of the Eucharist, &c. We read of some Pharisees and Lawyers that came to Christ, and he received them into his Company, who, it appears, came to tempt him. Also the Sadducees are said to come unto him, who said there was no Resurrection; may Christ's Ministers baptize such and receive them into their Communion?
2. In the days of Christ when he was on Earth, there were many who are said to come unto him, whom he might receive into his Presence and Company, yet his Ministers might not baptize them, nor receive them into their spiritual Communion:1