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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 4
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CHAP. IV.
Wherein the Argument for Infant-Baptism, taken from the constant and universal Practice of the Church in all Ages, which is Mr. Burkit's last Argument, is fully answered, and Antiquity proved on our side.
Your sixth and last Argument for Infant-Baptism, is this, viz.
YOur sixth and last Argument for Infant-Baptism, is this, viz.
That which has been the constant and immemorial Practice of the Church of God in all Ages of the World, is unquestionably an Ordinance of God, and agreeable to his Will. But Infants Initiation, or the Admission of Infants into the Jewish Church by Circumcision, and into the Christian Church by Baptism, has been the immemorial Practice of the Universal Church from the Days of Abraham to this day. Therefore it is undeniably an Ordinance of God, and agreeable to his Will.