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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 9
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Tilenus, a great Protestant Writer,1 speaks fully in this Case; Baptism, saith he, is the first Sacrament of the New Testament, instituted by Christ, in which there is an exact Analogy between the Sign and the thing signified. The outward Rite in Baptism is three-fold: 1. Immersion into the Water. 2. Abiding under the Water. 3. A Resurrection out of the Water.
- 1Tilenus in his Dispute, p. 886, 889. on Rom. 3, 4.
The Form of Baptism, viz. external and essential, is no other than the Analogical Proportion, which the Signs keep with the things signified thereby: for the Properties of the Water washing away the Defilements of the Body, does in a most suitable Similitude set forth the Efficacy of Christ's Blood, in blotting out of Sin; so dipping into the Water, in a most lively Similitude, sets forth the Mortification of the Old Man; and rising out of the Water, the Vivification of the New Man. The same plunging into the Water, saith he, holds forth to us that horrible Gulf of Divine Justice, in which Christ for our sakes, for a while, was in a manner swallowed up; abiding under the Water, (how little time soever) denotes his Descent into Hell*, even the very deepest of Lifelessness, which lying in the sealed or guarded Sepulchre, he was accounted as one dead. Rising out of the Water, holds forth to us a lively Similitude of that Conquest which this dead Man got over Death. In like manner, saith he, 'tis therefore meet that we being baptized into his Death, and buried with him, should rise also with him, and to go on in a new Life. Thus far Tilenus.
The Form of Baptism, viz. external and essential, is no other than the Analogical Proportion, which the Signs keep with the things signified thereby: for the Properties of the Water washing away the Defilements of the Body, does in a most suitable Similitude set forth the Efficacy of Christ's Blood, in blotting out of Sin; so diping into the Water, in a most lively Similitude, sets forth the Mortification of the Old Man; and rising out of the Water, the Vivification of the New Man. The same plunging into the Water, saith he, holds forth to us that horrible Gulph of Divine Justice, in which Christ for our sakes, for a while, was in a manner swallowed up; abiding under the Water, (how little time soever) denotes his Descent into Hell