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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. Can that be useful that brings poor Babes into such a Covenant, which Christ never ordained for them to enter into; and to which they never directly nor indirectly consented nor approved of; and which they are utterly unable to keep; and which giveth them no Strength to perform; nor is there one promise of God made to assist or help them to do it; and yet for not keeping of it they are charged with Perjury, with Self-murder, nay, with Hell and Damnation?
4. Can that be of use to Infants, that basely beguiles and deceives them, causing them when grown up to think they were thereby made Christians, and become the Children of God, Members of Christ, and Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven, nay, regenerated; and from hence never look after any other Work of Grace nor Regeneration, but conclude all is well with them?
5. Can that be a useful thing, which the doing of is a palpable Alteration of the Words of ⟨p. 155⟩Christ's Commission, and so inverts that holy Order left by him for baptizing, who requires none to be baptized before they are first taught and made Disciples?