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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Rector Rectified, and Corrected: OR, Infant-Baptism Unlawful. › Chapter 7
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. VII.
Showing that the Baptists are falsely called Anabaptists, they being as much against rebaptizing as Mr. Burkit, (or any other Men or People whatsoever) showing that Infants who have only had a little Water sprinkled or poured on their Faces, &c. are not baptized, but rantized: Proving Baptism is Immersion, (and without the Person's Body is dipped or covered all over in the Water, he is not baptized) from the literal genuine and proper Signification of the Greek Word Baptizo.
Shewing that the Baptists are falsly called Anabaptists, they being as much against rebaptizing as Mr. Burkit, (or any other Men or People whatsoever) shewing that Infants who have only had a little Water sprinkled or poured on their Faces, &c. are not baptized, but rantized: Proving Baptism is Immersion, (and without the Person's Body is dipped or covered all over in the Water, he is not baptized) from the literal genuine and proper Signification of the Greek Word Baptizo.
1. IN Page 42, you say, That you will endeavour to satisfy such who were baptized (as you call it) in their Infancy, that they were rightly baptized.