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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. Therefore Christ speaking so favourably of Infants, and yet baptized them not, may teach us to judg favourably of them, and do any charitable Office towards them, but not to presume to give them holy Baptism without Christ's Warrant, no more than any other Gospel-Ordinance. 'Tis no matter what Calvin spoke, 'tis no Sin to keep such out of Christ's Fold, which he has given no Authority to take in: nor have any People a more charitable Opinion of the state of dying Infants, than those you call Anabaptists.
4. Those who are capable of some kind of Blessings of Christ, we have showed, are notwithstanding not capable of Baptism.
4. Those who are capable of some kind of Blessings of Christ, we have shewed, are notwithstanding not capable of Baptism.
We read not, the Disciples baptized these little Children, nor none else.
Object. To this you answer; Perhaps they were Baptized before: But (say you) it doth ⟨p. 105⟩