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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 6
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. But you say they have hereby Interest in all the Prayers put up in and by the Church.
Answ. If you so pray for them, viz. as Members of the visible Church, what ground have you to believe God will hear you, since he never made them Members thereof? Besides, the Church prays for all her Members, and for the Children of them who are Members, that they in due time may become Members, and have equal Right in all the Blessings of God's Church, if it be his Will to bring them in. But what ground have you to deny any who are true Members of the Church, the Eucharist, or Lord's Supper, or any other Privilege whatsoever?
Answ. If you so pray for them, viz. as Members of the visible Church, what ground have you to believe God will hear you, since he never made them Members thereof? Besides, the Church prays for all her Members, and for the Children of them who are Members, that they in due time may become Members, and have equal Right in all the Blessings of God's Church, if it be his Will to bring them in. But what ground have you to deny any who are true Members of the Church, the Eucharist, or Lord's Supper, or any other Priviledge whatsoerver?
2. You say, by virtue of this Admission they have an Interest in that special Providential Care which Christ exercises over his Church.