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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
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Now this being granted, which indeed must of necessity, then the Uncleanness must be understood of Bastardy, and the Holiness of Legitimation, as Mat. 2.15. for no other Holiness necessarily follows to their Children in that their Parents Marriage is lawful: See the Apostle's Conclusion, Else were your Children unclean: you leave out [Else] for you mention Children as another Doubt which was in the Corinthians about them, which cannot be gathered from the Text nor Scope of it, but [Else] were your Children unclean, is brought in as an Argument to prove that which he saith last; as the Particle [Greek or Hebrew] shows; for the terms [Greek or Hebrew] else were, are argumentative as much as quoniam tum, becaus• then used. So 1 Cor. 15.14, 29. Rom. 11.16. to prove that which went before.
Now this being granted, which inddeed must of necessity, then the Uncleanness must be understood of Bastardy, and the Holiness of Legitimation, as Mat. 2.15. for no other Holiness necessarily follows to their Children in that their Parents Marriage is lawful: See the Apostle's Conclusion, Else were your Children unclean: you leave out [Else] for you mention Children as another Doubt which was in the Corinthians about them, which cannot be gathered from the Text nor Scope of it, but [Else] were your Children unclean, is brought in as an Argument to prove that which he saith last; as the Particle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 shews; for the terms 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 else were, are argumentative as much as quoniam tum, becaus• then used. So 1 Cor. 15.14, 29. Rom. 11.16. to prove that which went before.