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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 10
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Containing some brief practical Use of the whole; with seasonable Counsel to Parents, &c.
Containing some brief practical Ʋse of the whole; with seasonable Counsel to Parents, &c.
1. From hence I infer that those who have only been sprinkled or rantized, who are baptized afterwards when they believe, are not rebaptized, as you affirm; nor do they renounce their Baptism, though they do renounce the Practice and humane Tradition of Sprinkling.
1. FRom hence I infer that those who have only been sprinkled or rantized, who are baptized afterwards when they believe, are not rebaptized, as you affirm; nor do they renounce their Baptism, though they do renounce the Practice and humane Tradition of Sprinkling.
2. All you pious Parents, bless God for Christ and the Gospel, and for all those Privileges he hath bestowed upon you; and be sure make God's Word your Rule, and tremble to do any thing in his Worship, without lawful Authority from him, I mean Precept or Example from his Word; and do not adventure to baptize, much less to rantize your Children, whatever Mr. Burkit or any Man on Earth says, unless you can find it written in your Bibles; God hath not commanded you to bring them into a Baptismal Covenant, not made any Promise of Blessing to assist them to perform it: If you do so, consider what I have said in this Treatise about that devised and unwarrantable Covenant by which you may heap up Guilt upon your selves, and lay such a Load and Burden on your Children, that you are not aware of, and frighten them with the Thoughts of Perjury, &c. sufficient to drive them into Despair, when indeed God never will charge them with Perjury, since he never commanded them to enter into any such Covenant.