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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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(6.) God hath also promised to assist, stand by, help and enable all Believers baptized, with further supplies of Grace; nay, they being actually united to Christ, have his blessed Influences flowing to them, besides the Promises of God, the Death, Resurrection, and Intercession of Christ; and the everlasting Covenant of Grace, which is ordered in all things, and sure, firmly secures all their Souls: But thus it is not with those poor Babes you bring into this Covenant; you are like Pharaoh's Task-masters, command the making of Brick, but allow them no Straw.
4. Again, consider how hereby great part of the Nations are perjured: I will appeal to the Consciences of all thinking and understanding People, whether, according to your Principle and Practice, it is not so; Mourn O England and lament, sad is thy Case! If these Men speak right or truly, what a Multitude in thee have been made to enter into this Covenant, who never performed it? O Perjured Nation! Perjured People! and Perjured Pastors! for so are all thy debauched, drunken, swearing and unclean Teachers. Are not these perjured also? Have they kept their Vow and Covenant? Alas, Sir, instead of mourning for this Sin, we may conclude they never thought of it. But let them break off their Sins by Righteousness; I mean, repent and leave those gross Acts of Wickedness, of which many, both Priest and People, are guilty, and get renewing Grace, and never let them fear this new devised Sin of Perjury. For if God's Word convinces of all Sins, and doth not convince of this sort of Perjury, this is no Perjury; (I mean the simple breaking of that Covenant, though those Sins by which they are said to break it, are horrid Treason and Rebellion against the God of Heaven, and provoke him to Wrath every Day.) But God's Word doth convince of all Sins, and doth not convince of this sort of Perjury; therefore it cannot be Perjury, as is affirmed. 'Tis not this which is the Self-killing-Murder, the damning Sin: No, no; but 'tis their Unbelief and Contempt of God's Grace, or neglecting the great Salvation offered by Christ in the Gospel.