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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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5. If Baptism and Circumcision were both in full force together for some time; then Baptism is not the Type of, nor came in the room of Circumcision.
But Baptism and Circumcision were both in full force together for some time: Therefore Baptism is no Type of, nor came in the room of Circumcision.
The Minor is undeniable. Was not Baptism in full force from the time that John received it from Heaven, and administered it on the People? and did not Christ, by the hands of his Disciples, ⟨p. 12⟩baptize many Persons? nay, more Disciples than John? as it is said, Joh. 4.1, 2. And was not Circumcision them in full force too, and so abode till Christ took it away by nailing it, with all other Jewish Rites, to his Cross?
The Minor is undeniable. Was not Baptism in full force from the time that John received it from Heaven, and administred it on the People? and did not Christ, by the hands of his Disciples, ⟨p. 12⟩baptize many Persons? nay, more Disciples than John? as it is said, Joh. 4.1, 2. And was not Circumcision them in full force too, and so abode till Christ took it away by nailing it, with all other Jewish Rites, to his Cross?