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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.
Vossius says it implieth a washing the whole Body.1
- 1Vossius.
Mincaeus in his Dictionary saith,1 that [Greek or Hebrew], is in the Latin Baptismus, in Dutch Doopsit or Doopen, Baptismus, or Baptism, to dive or duck in Water, and the same with the Hebrew, [Greek or Hebrew] Tabal, which the Septuagint, or seventy Interpreters, render [Greek or Hebrew] Baptiso, to dip.2 This Casaubon saith was the Rite of ⟨p. 162⟩baptizing, that Persons were plunged into the Water, which the very word baptizo sufficiently demonstrates; which as it does not extend so far as to sink down to the bottom to the hurt of the Person, so it is not to swim upon the Superficies—. Baptism ought to be administered by plunging the whole Body into the Water.
Mincaeus in his Dictionary saith,1 that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is in the Latin Baptismus, in Dutch Doopsit or Doopen, Baptismus, or Baptism, to dive or duck in Water, and the same with the Hebrew, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Tabal, which the Septuagint, or seventy Interpreters, render 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Baptiso, to dip.2 This Casaubon saith was the Rite of ⟨p. 162⟩