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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.
And this sense is the more confirmed in that [Greek or Hebrew] Sanctification is the same with Chastity, 1 Thess. 4.7. so that the sense is, the unbelieving Husband is sanctified to his Wife, that is, lawfully or chastely used as a Husband, without Fornication in respect of his own Wife, whether Believer or Unbeliever, and therefore not to be refused. And this sense only serves for the Apostle's purpose. The words are a reason why they might lawfully live together; the reason must be taken from that which was ⟨p. 116⟩not contingent, but certain. Therefore let them live together; for though one be an Unbeliever the other a Believer, yet Marriage continues still, they are Husband and Wife, and sanctified to each others use in respect of their chaste Enjoyment of each other, and it is no Sin in them so to company together notwithstanding the Unbelief of one Party; for Marriage is honourable among all, even Unbelievers, and the Bed undefiled, Heb. 13.4. and Holiness and Honour are terms (as one observes) of like sense in this matter, 1 Thess. 4.7.
And this sense is the more confirmed in that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Sanctification is the same with Chastity, 1 Thess. 4.7. so that the sense is, the unbelieving Husband is sanctified to his Wife, that is, lawfully or chastly used as a Husband, without Fornication in respect of his own Wife, whether Believer or Unbeliever, and therefore not to be refused. And this sense only serves for the Apostle's purpose. The words are a reason why they might lawfully live together; the reason must be taken from that which was ⟨p. 116⟩not contingent, but certain. Therefore let them live together; for though one be an Unbeliever the other a Believer, yet Marriage continues still, they are Husband and Wife, and sanctified to each others use in respect of their chast Ejoyment of each other, and it is no Sin in them so to company together notwithstanding the Unbelief of one Party; for Marriage is honourable among all, even Unbelievers, and the Bed undefiled,