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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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Answ. This Argument supposeth Baptism to succeed in the place of Circumcision;1 which may be understood many ways.
- 1Mr Tomb's Answer.
1. So as that the sense be, that those Persons may be Baptized, which heretofore, by God's Appointment, were to be Circumcised. And in this sense the Argument must proceed, if it conclude to the purpose: But in this sense it is false, for Females were not Circumcised, which yet were Baptized, as Act. 8.12, 13, 14. & 16.14, 15. and Believers out of Abraham's House, as Lot, Melchizedek, Joh, were not to be Circumcised: but believing Gentiles are universally to be Baptized.
1. So as that the sense be, that those Persons may be Baptized, which heretofore, by God's Appointment, were to be Circumcised. And in this sense the Argument must proceed, if it conclude to the purpose: But in this sense it is false, for Females were not Circumcised, which yet were Baptized, as Act. 8.12, 13, 14. & 16.14, 15. and Believers out of Abraham's House, as Lot, Melchisedec, Joh, were not to be Circumcised: but believing Gentiles are universally to be Baptized.
2. It may be so understood as if the Rite of Baptism then began, when the Rite of Circumcision did or was to end. But this is not to be said; for John Baptist and Christ's Disciples baptized,