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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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But to proceed;
Your first Demonstration to prove Infant-Baptism in the days after the Apostles (in pag. 30, 31.) is this,1 viz. Because that Children had Hands laid upon them in their Minority.
- 1Mr. Burkit's first Demonstration to prove Infant-Baptism in the days after the Apostles.
Answ. This signifies nothing, for as the Fathers changed the Ordinance of Baptism from believing Men and Women to ignorant Babes, so they changed Imposition of Hands (which I own to be a Principle of Christ's Doctrine, Heb. 6.12.) to such young People who in their Minority had learned the Articles of the Christian Faith: But clear it is, in the Primitive Apostolical Times, none but baptized Believers were admitted to that Ordinance of Laying on of Hands, as Acts 8.14. & 19.6. witnesses.