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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 8
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O what abundance of the Betrayers of the Truth, and of Churches too, have we in these, as well as in former Days! How little is the Institution of Christ, or Practice of the Primitive Churches, minded by many good Men? Where is the Spirit of Reformation? And doubtless that famous Author, and learned Critic in the Greek Tongue, Casaubon, was in the Right; take his words.
O what abundance of the Betrayers of the Truth, and of Churches too, have we in these, as well as in former Days! How little is the Institution of Christ, or Practice of the Primitive Churches, minded by many good Men? Where is the Spirit of Reformation? And doubtless that famous Author, and learned Critick in the Greek Tongue, Casaubon, was in the Right; take his words.
I doubt not (saith he) but contrary to our Church's Intention,1 this Error having once crept in, is maintained still, by the carnal Ease of such, as looking more at themselves than at God, stretch the Liberty of the Church in this case, deeper and further than either the Church her self would, or the solemness of this Sacrament may well and safely admit. Afterwards he saith, I confess my self unconvinced, by Demonstrations of Scripture, for Infants Sprinkling.
- 1Casaubon on Mat. 3.11.
The truth is, the Church gave too great Liberty; she had no Power to alter in the least Matter, but to have kept exactly to the Institution. She says, Dipping [or Sprinkling] that spoils all, that Addition gives encouragement; Who will Dip the Person, that can believe the Church that Sprinkling may serve? And O how hard is it to retract an Error which hath