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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Rector Rectified, and Corrected: OR, Infant-Baptism Unlawful. › Chapter 3
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Let us consider how the Apostle speaks, viz. with respect to a thing present, or past, therefore he useth the Preterperfect Tense, [Greek or Hebrew], hath been sanctified: yea,1 in probability he speaks of a Sanctification even when both were Unbelievers or Infidels; for he saith, [Greek or Hebrew] twice in the Preterperfect Tense, and he mentions the Unbeliever distinctly; but the Believer without the Expression of his Faith, under the Title of Husband or Wife, and saith, your Children in Discrimination, without Difference, as well those they had before, one was a Believer, as since; and if so, then the Children born to them, whilst both were Unbelievers, were as holy as such born after one became a Believer; and what Holiness was in the Children then think you? even no other than that which is in all Children born in lawful Wedlock, whether their Parents are Believers or Unbelievers.
Let us consider how the Apostle speaks, viz. with respect to a thing present, or past, therefore he useth the Preterperfect Tense, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, hath been sanctified: yea,1 in probability he speaks of a Sanctification even when both were Unbelievers or Infidels; for he saith, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 twice in the Preterperfect Tense, and he mentions the Unbeliever distinctly; but the Believer without the Expression of his Faith, under the Title of Husband or Wife, and saith, your Children in Discrimination, without Difference, as well those they had before, one was a Believer, as since; and if so, then the Children born to them, whilst both were Unbelievers, were as holy as such born after one became a Believer; and what Holiness was in the Children then think you? even no other than that which is in all Children born in lawful Wedlock, whether their Parents are Believers or Unbelievers.
- 1See Mr. Tombs.