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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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Answ.: 1. This is enough to set Children against their ungodly Parents, nay, to […] them in their Hearts. Alas, the Children of wicked Parents▪ I see not but they may be i• as good a Condition as the Children of Believers▪ for doubtless God will not destroy poor children for the F•••t and Sins of their Parents. […] by your begetting them, (though gracious) you cannot live them, so you by begetting them, (though wicked) cannot damn or destroy them.
Answ.: 1. This is enough to set Children against their ungodly Parents, nay, to 〈…〉 them in their Hearts. Alas, the Children of wicked Parents▪ I see not but they may be i• as good a Condition as the Children of Believers▪ for doubtless God will not destroy poor children for the F•••t and Sins of their Parents. 〈…〉 by your begetting them, (though gracious) you cannot live them, so you by begetting them, (though wicked) cannot damn or destroy them.