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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.
Ignatius saith, that believing in his Death,1 we may be made partakers of his Resurrection by Baptism. Baptism was given in memory of the Death of our Lord; we perform the Symbols of his Death. (Mark) not of pouring forth his Blood or Holy Spirit, or sprinkling the Spirit on us, or the Blood of Christ: No, no; this that Author says, is not signified in Baptism, but the Burial and Resurrection of Christ; which Sprinkling no manner of ways can represent.
- 1Ignat. Epist ad Tral. id. Epist. ad Philadelph.
Justin Martyr saith,1 We know but one saving Baptism, in regard there is but one Resurrection from the Dead, of which Baptism is an Image.
- 1Justin Martyr.
And from hence, say I, we know not Infants ⟨p. 188⟩Rantism or Sprinkling; for this is none of Christ's true Baptism. Christ's Baptism in Water is but one, and 'tis that of Believers; and 'tis not Sprinkling, but Dipping, to signify Christ's Burial and Resurrection. He goes on, and cites other Authors.