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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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3. It may be understood, as if Baptism did succeed into the place of Circumcision, in respect of its signification; which is true in some things, but not in others. First, both might signify the Sanctification of the Heart; and this is […] may be concluded out of that place alleged, Col. 2.11, 12. To which I think meet to add, that if that Text be looked into, the Apostle speaks not of any Circumcision, but of Christ, ⟨p. 14⟩because in him we are complete, and by whose Circumcision we are said to put off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh: nor doth the Text say we are Circumcised, because we are Baptized; but that we are complete in Christ, because we are Circumcised in him, and buried with him in Baptism, (in which) or in whom ye and also risen together, through the Faith of the Operation of God that raised him from the Dead.
3. It may be understood, as if Baptism did succeed into the place of Circumcision, in respect of its signification; which is true in some things, but not in others. First, both might signify the Sanctification of the Heart; and this is 〈…〉 may be concluded out of that place alledged, Col. 2.11, 12. To which I think meet to add, that if that Text be looked into, the Apostle speaks not of any Circumcision, but of Christ, ⟨p. 14⟩because in him we are compleat, and by whose Circumcision we are said to put off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh: nor doth the Text say we are Circumcised, because we are Baptized; but that we are compleat in Christ, because we are Circumcised in him, and buried with him in Baptism, (in which) or in whom ye and also risen together, through the Faith of the Operation of God that raised him from the Dead.
In some things Baptism doth not succeed into the place of Circumcision, in respect of signification.