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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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3. You hereby bring them under a necessity of committing of the Sin of Perjury, and of Apostasy, at leastwise in your own conceit, and in theirs too, if they can believe what you say, and so to cause them to mourn for that, or those Sins most, which may be (if all things were rightly considered) are no Sins at all. I do not mean that any of their actual Transgressions may not be Sin; but that they are not guilty of Perjury and Apostasy by breaking that you call their Baptismal Covenant: for if God brought them not into that Covenant, nor into any Covenant-relation with himself thereby, I cannot see how there should be such a Sting in the Tail of it, as you affirm and imagine; and indeed, had they themselves, of their one accord and consent, entered into an unlawful or an unwarrantable Covenant, which they were no ways able to perform, it may be doubted whether it would be Perjury in them if they kept it not: besides, I hope they have not forsworn themselves, how then is it Perjury?
3. You hereby bring them under a necessity of committing of the Sin of Perjury, and of Apostacy, at leastwise in your own conceit, and in theirs too, if they can believe what you say, and so to cause them to mourn for that, or those Sins most, which may be (if all things were rightly considered) are no Sins at all. I do not mean that any of their actual Transgressions may not be Sin; but that they are not guilty of Perjury and Apostacy by breaking that you call their Baptismal Covenant: for if God brought them not into that Covenant, nor into any Covenant-relation with himself thereby, I cannot see how there should be such a Sting in the Tail of it, as you affirm and imagine; and indeed, had they themselves, of their one accord and consent, entred into an unlawful or an unwarrantable Covenant, which they were no ways able to perform, it may be doubted whether it would be Perjury in them if they kept it not: besides, I hope they have not forsworn themselves, how then is it Perjury?
4. Moreover,1 I desire all those Parents who baptize their Children; and you also, to consider, in the fear of God, the natural Tendency and