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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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Might not I state another Argument as good as yours, nay, may be better, yet both prove nothing? I argue thus;
1. If the Jewish Infants had Right to the Possession of the Land of Canaan, the Infants of Christians have a Right to the Possession of the Land of Canaan. But the former is true; Ergo. And if this were so, let us make another holy War, a•d take possession of it for our Children.
1. If the Jewish Infants had Right to the Possession of the Land of Canaan, the Infants of Christi••s have a Right to the Possession of the Land of Canaan. But the former is true; Ergo. And if this were so, let us make another holy War, a•d take possession of it for our Children.
2. Take a second Argument of the like nature with yours, viz. If all the Sons of the Priests of God under the Law, had an undeniable Right to the Priesthood, and many other external Privileges; then the Sons of the Ministers of Christ have a Right to the Ministry under the Gospel, and many other external Privileges. But the former is true; Ergo.
2. Take a second Argument of the like nature with yours, viz. If all the Sons of the Priests of God under the Law, had an undeniable Right to the Priesthood, and many other external Priviledges; then the Sons of the Ministers of Christ have a Right to the Ministry under the Gospel, and many other external Priviledges. But the former is true; Ergo.