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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.
Salmasius in his Notes of divers upon Sulpitius Severus *saith, That the word Baptizein signifies Immersion, not Sprinkling. Nor did the Ancients otherwise baptize than by single or treble Immersion in the Greek Church to this day; (saith he) the Person to be baptized is plunged over Head and Ears. The same thing does Peter Avitabolis testify of the Asian Christians inhabiting Iburia and Colchi.
- *St. Martin's Life, N. 16.
St. Ambrose saith,1 Water is that wherein the Body is plunged, to wash all Sin away, there all Vice is buried.
- 1Lib. de Initiandis.
In a Book inscribed, Reformation of Ecclesiastical Laws, printed at London 1641. 'tis expressed in these words, viz. While we are plunged in the Water, the Death and Burial of Christ is recommended to us, that we openly testify that Sin lies dead and buried in us.