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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 6
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I know not whether you be of this Pedo-Baptist's Mind, or not; but I think this Doctrine does not fit a Christian Catechism: if God had required Infants to enter into such a Covenant, some reason he might have thus to speak:1 But since he nor you either can prove it, this to me seems a daring boldness in a Minister of the Gospel to assert, (who I hope is a good Man). God I grant expects, that all true Believers should perform their Baptismal Covenant, but then know they are required of God actually to enter into it; they freely of their own choice enter into it, they are such God hath given habitual Grace to perform it. And he hath promised them also a further supply of Grace to enable them so to do; but nothing of this you can prove, in Infants covenanting in their Baptism, (but more of this by and by); nor will their Sureties help the matter, for if they cannot perform those things they promise for themselves, how should they be able to do it for others? besides 'tis an humane Invention, and not appointed of God, as Mr. Perkins himself confesseth.
- 1Mr. Williams worthy of blame as well as Mr. Burkit.
But truly Mr. Williams's Doctrine afflicts my Mind: Strange! is this Sin the damning Sin? I thought ⟨p. 145⟩the damning Sin (by way of eminency) had been the Sin of Unbelief: Suppose your own Child should not believe he is bound by virtue of that baptismal Covenant you brought him into, but when grown up, disowns that (you call) Baptism, &c. not believing it is a Truth of Christ, must he be damned?
But truly Mr. Williams's Doctrin afflicts my Mind: Strange! is this Sin the damning Sin? I thought ⟨p. 145⟩the damning Sin (by way of eminency) had been the Sin of Unbelief: Suppose your own Child should not believe he is bound by virtue of that baptismal Covenant you brought him into, but when grown up, disowns that (you call) Baptism, &c. not believing it is a Truth of Christ, must he be damned?