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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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Dr. Taylor saith,1 in his Dissuasive against Popery, pag. 118. printed 1667. one of his last Pieces, thus, viz. That there is a Tradition to baptize Infants, relies but upon two Witnesses, Origen and Austin; and the latter having it from the former, it lies upon a single Testimony, which, saith he, is a pitiful Argument to prove a Tradition Apostolical: He is the first that spoke of it, but Tertullian that was before him, seems to speak against it, which he would not have done, if it had been an Apostolical Tradition; and that it was not so, is but too certain, if there be any Truth in the Words of Ludovicus Vives, who says,2 That anciently none were baptized but Persons of riper Age.
Dr. Taylor saith,1 in his Disswasive against Popery, pag. 118. printed 1667. one of his last Pieces, thus, viz. That there is a Tradition to baptize Infants, relies but upon two Witnesses, Origen and Austin; and the latter having it from the former, it lies upon a single Testimony, which, saith he, is a pitiful Argument to prove a Tradition Apostolical: He is the first that spoke of it, but Tertullian that was before him, seems to speak against it, which he would not have done, if it had been an Apostolical Tradition; and that it was not so, is but too certain, if there be any Truth in the Words of Ludovicus Vives, who says,2 That anciently none were baptized but Persons of riper Age.
- 1Dr. Taylor's Dissuasive against Popery, p. 118.Dr. Taylor's Disswasive against Popery, p. 118.
- 2Ludovicus Vives.