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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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1. For first, the Apostle 'tis true excludes Circumcision, but 'tis upon another account, viz. by showing Circumcision was a Figure of the Circumcision of the Heart, as Rom. 2. 28, 29. Phil. 3.3. and since they had the thing signified ⟨p. 9⟩thereby, the Rite or Sign ceased. And as I have lately replied to some of your Brethren in answer to this Text, so I must say to you, all that can well be asserted from this Scripture, where the Apostle brings in Baptism, is no more than this, viz. That where Baptism is rightly administered upon a proper Subject, it represents the spiritual and mystical Circumcision of the Heart, i. e. that the Soul is dead to Sin, or hath put off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh by the Circumcision of Christ; which may refer to the Power of his Death in the blessed Effects thereof, by the effectual Sin-killing Operations of the Spirit on the Heart. And as being dead to Sin, we are buried with Christ in Baptism, both in sign and token of Christ's Burial, i. e. covered all over in the Water, which is a clear Symbol of his Burial; also in Signification, i. e. that we being dead and buried with Christ in Baptism, so are to rise with him, by the Faith of the Operation of God; and both these are held forth in true Baptism. The Apostle doth not mention Baptism to come in the room of Circumcision, but to show that these believing Colossians had through Christ by the Spirit obtained the Antitype thereof, or thing figured out in the Circumcision of the Flesh; which Baptism did clearly represent. But since this is so strenuously urged by you afresh, tho so often answered, I will be at the trouble to transcribe once more what Dr. Taylor, late Bishop of Down, hath said to this Argument of yours, and others before you, about Circumcision, viz. That Baptism is the Antitype of it, or that it came in the room thereof.
1. For first, the Apostle 'tis true excludes Circumcision, but 'tis upon another account, viz. by shewing Circumcision was a Figure of the Circumcision of the Heart, as Rom. 2. 28, 29. Phil. 3.3. and since they had the thing signified