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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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Arg. 2. If Baptism administered by pouring Water on the Face (represents the whole Person) doth answer the Use and End of Baptism, as well as when administered by Dipping or Plunging; then Dipping is not essentially and absolutely necessary in the Act of baptizing: But the one answers the Use and End of Baptism as well as the other; therefore the one cannot be more necessary than the other.
Arg. 2. If Baptism administred by pouring Water on the Face (represents the whole Person) doth answer the Use and End of Baptism, as well as when administred by Dipping or Plunging; then Dipping is not essentially and absolutely necessary in the Act of baptizing: But the one answers the Use and End of Baptism as well as the other; therefore the one cannot be more necessary than the other.
What is the Use and End of Baptism but to represent to our Minds the Effusion of Christ's Blood, for to take away the Guilt of Sin; and the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit, for the purging away the Filth of it? Now (say you) the sprinkling of the Blood of Christ, and the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit upon the Infant, are more fully and plainly represented by Baptism, ad administred by Sprinkling, than by Dipping.
If, say you, the inward and spiritual Grace signified by Baptism, be more lively represented by Sprinkling than by Dipping; then surely Sprinkling is not only as lawful, but more expedient than Dipping: but the inward and spiritual Grace signified by Baptism, to wit, the cleansing of the Soul by the Grace and Spirit of Christ, is more lively represented by Sprinkling than by Dipping: therefore more expedient. And accordingly we find Almighty God himself often expressing that Mercy of Sanctification by this Action; Ezek. 36.25. Then will I sprink•• clean Water upon you, and ye shall be clean, &c.