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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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What if I agree with the last, and say, Abraham is the Root? but what Root? Why the Root of all his true spiritual Seed: And if so, the Holiness of the Branches was real, in word, and spiritual; for such Holiness as is in the Root, is in the Branches. And indeed, for want of Faith, or of that real and spiritual Holiness in many of his natural Branches, (for he was a two-fold Root, or Father, as I before have proved) they were rejected, or broken off for their Unbelief; and the Gentiles by Faith were grafted in, they having obtained the Fatness of the Root, or the Faith and Righteousness of their Father Abraham, who was the Root or Father of all that believe. The Truth is, as Mr. Tombs observes, the Holiness here meant, is first in respect of God's Election, Holiness, personal and inherent in God's Intention, Ephes. 1.4. Secondly, It is also Holiness derivative, not from any Ancestors, but Abraham; not as a natural Father, but as a spiritual Father, or Father of the Faithful; and so derived from the Covenant of Grace made with Abraham.
What if I agree with the last, and say, Abraham is the Root? but what Root? Why the Root of all his true spiritual Seed: And if so, the Holiness of the Branches was real, in word, and spiritual; for such Holiness as is in the Root, is in the Branches. And indeed, for want of Faith, or of that real and spiritual Holiness in many of his natural Branches, (for he was a two-fold Root, or Father, as I before have proved) they were rejected, or broken off for their Ʋnbelief; and the Gentiles by Faith were grafted in, they having obtained the Fatness of the Root, or the Faith and Righteousness of their Father Abraham, who was the Root or Father of all that believe. The Truth is, as Mr. Tombs observes, the Holiness here meant, is first in respect of God's Election, Holiness, personal and inherent in God's Intention, Ephes. 1.4. Secondly, It is also Holiness derivative, not from any Ancestors, but Abraham; not as a natural Father, but as a spiritual Father, or Father of the Faithful; and so derived from the Covenant of Grace made with Abraham.