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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 let the Jews Covenant and standing before they were broken off be what it would, I ⟨p. 109⟩am sure no Gentile is grafted into Christ, but by actual Faith; nor can any be grafted into the Gospel-Church, without the profession of such Faith, therefore you do but beat the Air.
The Jews, 'tis true, were broken off by their Unbelief, and were also no more a Church; nor is there any such kind of Church constituted under the Gospel as theirs was, viz. a National Church; for they amongst the Jews, who were the true Spiritual Seed of Abraham, receiving Christ by Faith, were planted into the Gospel-Church, and between them and Gentile Believers: Now there is no difference, Jew and Gentile stand in the Church now by Faith, not by external Covenant, Privilege-Right, or Holiness. Thou standest by Faith, O Believer; mark, not by Birth-Privilege,1 but by Faith. Thy standing is by Faith, (saith one) yet not thy Seed by thy Faith, but thou thy self by thine, and they by their own: Faith is that by which (thou standing, and not thy Seed) hast right to stand in the Church, and not they: but if thy Seed have Faith, and thou hast none, then they have right in the Church, and thou shalt be excluded. And though under the Law we deny not, but that the natural Seed or Progeny or Abraham, were all Holy, with an external Ceremonial or Typical Holiness; and consequently they were then admitted to an external Participation of Church-Privileges: Yet now 'tis otherwise, Old things are past away; now we know no Man after the Flesh, 2 Cor. 5.16. That Church-State is dissolved, and manner of admission into it, by external Birth-Privilege, &c. so that this Text doth not help you. I shall further open this place of Scripture.
- 1Mr. Cary's Solemn Call.