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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 7
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For, 1st. That they are not Subjects fitly qualified for Baptism, I have fully proved, and have detected your Argument concerning Baptism coming in the room of, or succeeding Circumcision.
2dly. I shall now prove your sprinkling or pouring Water on the Subject, either on the Face, or any part of the Body, is not baptizing but rantizing: Then answer you Allegations, Objections, base Reflections, and false Calumnies cast upon Mr. Tredwell, and indeed on the Baptists in general.
And in order to the effectual doing of this, take a Passage or two out of the ancient Fathers, &c. St. Gregory saith,1 That that is not said to be reiterated, which is not certainly demonstrated to have been rightly and duly done. And in another Place saith he, If there be an Offence taken at the Truth, it is much better that Offence ⟨p. 159⟩be taken, than that the Truth should be deserted. The Custom of the Churches ought to submit to the Words of Christ,2 not the Words of Christ to be wrested to the Custom of the Church; in regard the Words of Christ are the Foundation upon which all Customs are to be built. See the famous Dr. Du-Veil on the Acts.
- 1Gregory l. 1. Ep. 7.
- 2Dr. Du-Veil on Acts, p. 86.