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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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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.
- 1Dr. Du-Veil, on Acts cap. 8. p. 279.
Dr. Barlow late Bishop of Lincoln, in his Letter to Mr. T. saith, I believe and know that there is neither Precept nor Example in the Scripture for Pedo-baptism, nor any just Evidence for it ⟨p. 135⟩for above 200 Years after Christ. Tertullian condemns it as an unwarrantable Custom; and Nazianzen a good while after dislikes it: Sure I am (saith he) that in the Primitive Times they were Catechumeni, then Illuminati or Baptizati, and that not only Pagans, and Children of Pagans converted, but Children of Christian Parents. The truth is, I do believe Pedo-Baptism, how or by whom I know not, came into the World in the second Century; and in the Third and Fourth began to be practised, though not generally, and defended as lawful from the Text,