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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 9
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.
3ly, You say,1 There is a probability that Baptism was administered in the Apostles Times by Immersion or Dipping, so there is likewise a probability that it was done by Aspersion or Sprinkling.
3ly, You say,1 There is a probability that Baptism was administred in the Apostles Times by Immersion or Dipping, so there is likewise a probability that it was done by Aspersion or Sprinkling.
- 1His third Proposition.
Answ. We have, and shall yet further prove, that there is not the least probability, that in the Apostles time Baptism was ever administered by Aspersion, but by Immersion. You confess in hot Countries it was done by dipping; and that that Country where they baptized, […] which we read, was a hot Country; so that […] •hat Reason, by your own Argument, they […] by Immersion and not by Aspersion.
Answ. We have, and shall yet further prove, that there is not the least probability, that in the Apostles time Baptism was ever administred by Aspersion, but by Immersion. You confess in hot Countries it was done by dipping; and that that Country where they baptized, 〈…〉 which we read, was a hot Country; so that 〈…〉 •hat Reason, by your own Argument, they 〈…〉 by Immersion and not by Aspersion.