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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Rector Rectified, and Corrected: OR, Infant-Baptism Unlawful. › Chapter 4
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But, say you,1 if now the Anabaptists can believe that Almighty God has suffered all his Churches Ancient and Modern, and that in all parts of the World to fall into one and the same destroying Practice. They have a Power which I shall never envy, namely, of believing what they please, pag. 34.
- 1Mr. Burkit's Argument for Pedo-baptism, from its long continuance in the World, answered.
Answ. 1. You take that for granted which you prove not, viz. That all these Churches who hold Infant-Baptism are true Churches of Christ. Sir, I must tell you, we have not such a Power of Faith as to believe that.
2. Doth not the Apostle declare,1 that a general Apostasy from the true Apostolical Faith and Doctrine would after his days ensue? And hath not the Church of Rome, that Mother of Harlots, made all the Earth drunk with her Cup for near 1200 Years, or more, and corrupted all those Churches, more or less, with her poisonous Errors and false Doctrines, Rites and Ceremonies; ⟨p. 140⟩and yet Almighty God hath suffered her for so long a time? and many other Errors among Protestants.
2. Doth not the Apostle declare,1 that a general Apostacy from the true Apostolical Faith and Doctrine would after his days ensue? And hath not the Church of Rome, that Mother of Harlots, made all the Earth drunk with her Cup for near 1200 Years, or more, and corrupted all those Churches, more or less, with her poisonous Errors and false Doctrines, Rites and Ceremonies;