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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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The last Author I shall quote,1 is Learned Zanchy, There are two parts (saith he) in Regeneration, Mortification and Vivification; that is called a Burial with Christ, this a Resurrection with Christ. The Sacrament of both these is Baptism, in which we are overwhelmed or buried, and after that do come forth and rise again: It may not be said Truly, but Sacramentally of all that are baptized, that they are buried with Christ, and raised with him, but only of such as have true Faith.
- 1Zanchy on Col. 2.12.
Now we may appeal to all the World, whether Zanchy and all the rest do not clearly and evidently testify the same thing that we assert, viz. That Baptism is, and can be no other Act, than Immersion or Dipping, since Sprinkling, all must confess, doth not represent in a lively Figure the Burial and Resurrection of Christ, nor our dying or being dead to Sin, and vivification to newness of Life, saith ⟨p. 194⟩he, Sacramentally, i. e. Analogically, in respect of the near resemblance between Baptism, and a Death and Resurrection. And this I say cannot be said of them that are sprinkled only; for if in respect of Mortification and Vivification, they may be denominated buried and raised with Christ, (which cannot be said of Infants) yet that outward Rite or Sign cannot denominate them so much as Sacramentally buried and raised with Christ, for there is not so much as any likeness of such things in it but in true Baptism, viz. total dipping the Body in Water, and raising it again, it is in a lively Figure held forth to our very sight: And as Zanchy saith, It cannot be said of all, nor indeed of any, that they are […] sacramentally dead, buried and risen with Christ, but only of such as have true Faith. Therefore Infants are excluded by his own Argument.