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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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This Argument we have proved to be true in every part of it.
Arg. 2. If Baptism was appointed to hold forth or represent in a lively Figure the Person's Death to Sin, who is baptized, or his present Regeneration, not future, and his rising again to walk in Newness of Life; then Infants cannot be the Subjects thereof. But Baptism was appointed to hold forth or represent in a lively Figure the Person's Death to Sin, who is baptized, or his present Regeneration, not future, and his rising again to walk in ••wness of Life: therefore Infants are not the Subjects thereof.
Arg. 2. If Baptism was appointed to hold forth or represent in a lively Figure the Person's Death to Sin, who is baptized, or his present Regeneration, not future, and his rising again to walk in Newness of Life; then Infants cannot be the Subiects thereof. But Baptism was appointed to hold forth or represent in a lively Figure the Person's Death to Sin, who is baptized, or his present Regeneration, not future, and his rising again to walk in ••wness of Life: therefore Infants are not the Subjects thereof.
14.There is yet one Proof further to make it yet clearer, that Baptism is Immersion, Dipping, or Plunging, and nothing else, and that is taken from those typical Baptisms spoken of in the Holy Scripture. 1. That of the red Sin, wherein the Fathers were bu••ed as it were unto Moses in the Sea, and under the Cloud. See Pool's Annotations on the Place. Others, says he (more properly) think the Apostle uses this term in regard of the great Analogy Betwixt Baptism (as it was used) the Persons going down into the Waters, and being dipped in them; and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great Receptacle of Water, though the Water at that time was gathered on Heaps on either side of them; yet they seemed buried in the Water, as Persons seemed