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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 4
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We come to what you say in pag. 28. where you tell us of a cloud of Witnesses for Infant-Baptism in the Churches after the Apostles time.
Answ. And so you may if you pass the first 2 or 3 hundred Years after Christ; and many Errors besides which crept amain into the Churches. But pray remember, Sir, now you are without Book, you are forced to quit the Holy▪Bible, that sacred History, and great Charter of the Church: and therefore ⟨p. 128⟩all your Proof out of humane History, which may be true, or may not be true, signifies just nothing. But you had best take heed lest we carry the Cause against you here too, i. e. for the first Centuries; we will examine your Authors and humane Testimonies.
The first is Vossius, a later Writer, I know not but you may have Ireneus and St. Cyprian, out of him: I do confess Ireneus lived not above 200 Years after Christ, or in the second Century. Thus you and others cite him, viz. Omnes venit Christus per semetipsum salvare, omnes qui per eum renascuntur ad Deum Infantes & parvulos juniors & seniors. In English thus, Jesus Christ came to save all by himself, all who by him are born again unto God, Infants and little ones, Young and Old.
The first is Vossius, a later Writer, I know not but you may have Ireneus and St. Cyprian, out of him: I do confess Ireneus lived not above 200 Years after Christ, or in the second Century. Thus you and others cite him, viz. Omnes venit Christus per semetipsum salvare, omnes qui per eum renascuntur ad Deum Infantes & parvulos juniores & seniores. In English thus, Jesus Christ came to save all by himself, all who by him are born again unto God, Infants and little ones, Young and Old.