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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.
But then, say you, the Clothes are baptized.
What then, were not Grave-Clothes always buried with the Person that was laid in the Grave? Or, doth it follow, because the Clothes were buried, the Body of the Man or Woman was not buried also?
If you pour Water on the Face of a Child, the good Women will tell you, you will baptize the Child's fine Clothes also: nay, have you never sprinkled, or rantized the Children's fine Clothes or Dresses, when you, as you call it, have baptized them?
If you pour Water on the Face of a Child, the good Women will tell you, you will baptize the Child's fine Clothes also: nay, have you never sprinkled, or rantized the Childrens fine Clothes or Dresses, when you, as you call it, have baptized them?
But who do you (by arguing thus) reflect upon and reproach? is it not the holy and ever blessed Jesus who gave forth the Law, i. e. to dip Believers, or to plunge them in Water, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost? and do you not acknowledge in the Primitive Times, and in hot Countries, Baptism was done by Dipping? Why then, pray consider, do