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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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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.
The Roman Order published by the Writers concerning Ecclesiastical Ceremonies, say the Presbyters, enter into the Fountain within, unto the Water, and the Males are first baptized, and then the Females.
1Luther saith, The Name of Baptism is a Greek word, it may be turned a Dipping, when we dip something in Water that it may be wholly covered with Water. And although (saith he) that Custom is now altogether abolished among the most part, for neither do they dip the whole Children, but only sprinkle them with a little Water, they ought nevertheless to be dipped, and presently drawn out again.