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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.
3. The other Text is that of 3000 baptized in the same day, Acts 2.41.
Can any Body believe (in or near Jerusalem, that great City) there was not Water enough to baptize so many Persons? And could not the twelve Apostles, and the seventy Disciples, dip more than 3000 Persons in one day? Sir, 'tis enough, the Holy Ghost says they were baptized, that is, Dipped, not Rantized: therefore you do but go about to contradict the Holy Spirit, and fight with your own Shadow.
1Your fourth Argument, against the Necessity Dipping, is taken from the difficulty of the thing in some Countries, in regard they have not (you say) scarce Water enough to drink, not a River or Brook in many miles.
- 1Mr. Burkit's fourth Argument against Dipping, answered.