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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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2. That in those Times, in the Confession of Faith, in the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, which was done in a public and solemn manner in their Baptism, a liberty of Choice and Consent was required as preparatory to it: for the incapacity of the Infant in the Womb, to declare this Choice and Consent, is the reason why they conclude that the Infant was not baptized with the Mother.
2. That in those Times, in the Confession of Faith, in the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, which was done in a publick and solemn manner in their Baptism, a liberty of Choice and Consent was required as preparatory to it: for the incapacity of the Infant in the Womb, to declare this Choice and Consent, is the reason why they conclude that the Infant was not baptized with the Mother.
3. That it was then judged necessary to have the Consent and Choice of those who were to be baptized.
Dr. Du-Veil citing the same Synod on this Passage,1 (viz. That concerning the Baptism of a Woman with Child, that her Baptism concerns not her Child, for every one is to give a demonstration of his own Faith and Confession) saith, — However the Interpreters draw it to another purpose, it does appear, that the Question was made of a Woman big with Child, because it did seem that the Child was baptized together with the Mother; which notwithstanding ought not be used, nor to be baptized, except of its own proper Election and Profession.