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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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And unto these let me add what the Reverend Dr. Tillotson (the present Arch-Bishop of Canterbury) hath wrote:1 speaking of the same Text, Rom. 6.3, 4. Anciently (saith he) those who were baptized, put off their Garments, which signified the putting off the Body of Sin; and were immersed and buried in the Water, to represent the Death of Sin; and then did rise up again out of the Water, to signify their entrance upon a new Life. And to these Customs the Apostle alludes, when he says, How shall we that are dead to Sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us that were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his Death, &c.
And unto these let me add what the Reverend Dr. Tillotson (the present Arch-Bishop of Canterbury) hath wrote:1 speaking of the same Text, Rom. 6.3, 4. Anciently (saith he) those who were baptized, put off their Garments, which signified the putting off the Body of Sin; and were immers'd and buried in the Water, to represent the Death of Sin; and then did rise up again out of the Water, to signify their entrance upon a new Life. And to these Customs the Apostle alludes, when he says, How shall we that are dead to Sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us that were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his Death, &c.
- 1Sermons preached on several Occasions, 5th Ed••. p. 188, 189.
1. 'Tis a hard case, you neither will believe the holy Scripture, the Ancient Fathers, and modern Divines, no nor those learned Prelates and Doctors of your own Church, who […] living; but contrary to the nature and tendey of holy Baptism, plead for Sprinkling, and condemn Dipping, and cast reproach upon it, and say also, that the thing signified thereby, is the pouring forth of Christ's Blood, or the sprinkling or pouring out of the Holy Spirit, notwithstanding we prove from the Scripture, and with the Testimony of all these great Men, that Baptism signifies the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and not any of those things you affirm, as your own Concein, without the Testimony of any learned or approved Author.