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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 there is no Promise made to Infants that are Baptized, much less to such who are but only Rantized.
1. As to your Objection (in Pag. 57.) about the Dutch rendering baptizing dipping, 'tis not their Annotators, but 'tis their Translators, and that ⟨p. 201⟩too from the literal and proper Signification of the Greek Word;1 therefore you say nothing to weaken what we have said upon that account.
- 1'Tis so read Reader, in the Dutch Testament, they have translated the Greek word, and our Translators have not.
2. And as touching what you speak, i. e. that in Pag. 57. (viz. That Baptism signifies the Death and Burial of Christ, we, and a Cloud of Witnesses therefore say, that 'tis Dipping, because that is a most lively Representation of his Death, Burial and Resurrection) But you say, Baptism may signify the Death of Christ, and be so administered, as lively to represent the Death of our Saviour, without the exposing those who are baptized to the danger of Death; and may signify Christ's Burial too without sending the Person baptized to his Grave: even in Sprinkling, there is a plain Representation of Christ's Death; for the pouring forth of the Water not unfitly represents the pouring forth the Earth upon the dead Body.
2. And as touching what you speak, i. e. that in Pag. 57. (viz. That Baptism signifies the Death and Burial of Christ, we, and a Cloud of Witnesses therefore say, that 'tis Dipping, because that is a most lively Representation of his Death, Burial and Resurrection) But you say, Baptism may signify the Death of Christ, and be so administred, as lively to represent the Death of our Saviour, without the exposing those who are baptized to the danger of Death; and may signify Christ's Burial too without sending the Person baptized to his Grave: even in Sprinkling, there is a plain Representation of Christ's Death; for the pouring forth of the Water not unfitly represents the pouring forth the Earth upon the dead Body.