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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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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 ⟨p. 148⟩Consequences of your bringing poor Babes into such a Covenant.
- 1Parents, observe this well.
1. That you force them to enter into this Covenant without any Authority or Command from God: for I challenge you, and all Pedo-Baptists in the World, to prove God hath any-where, directly or indirectly, required any such thing at your Hands.
12. Consider that 'tis not only a Reformation of Life, or a bare refraining from the gross Acts of Sin, that you assert is comprehended in this Baptismal Covenant you cause Infants to enter into, but it is Regeneration it self, i. e. a change of Heart, and savingly to believe in Christ; this you oblige your poor Babes to perform. Now what Arminianism is here fomented, if once you say or think they are capable to perform this Obligation? but if they do not do it, woe be to them?
- 1Pedo-Baptists say, Infants in their Baptismal-Covenant, promise Regeneration, Faith, &c.