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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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4. This manner of arguing, will countenance the Arguments of the Papists for an Universal Bishop, because the Jews had such; and justify a Linen Garment at Mass, because there was such among the Jews; and for Holy Water, Purification of Women, Easter, Pentecost, and many more such Ceremonies; for which the Papists do in like manner argue, as appears out of Durandus's Rationals, and other Interpreters of Rituals among the Papists. Yea, what hindereth, but we may give Children the Lord's Supper, if we argue this way, since Samuel, Jesus Christ under ⟨p. 16⟩Age, were partakers of the Passover? And of right, all the Males were thrice in the Year to appear before the Lord, and therefore it is certain they did eat the Passover: and it shall be afterwards showed, that the place, 1 Cor. 11.28. will not avoid this Inconvenience, if the Text, Mat. 28.19. may be shifted off, as Pedo-Baptists use to do. Lest any Man take this for a light Suggestion, I will add, that grave, godly, and learned Men, have often warned, that we are to take heed, that we do not rashly frame Arguments from Analogy; among others, in their late Writings in the English Tongue, John Paget, in his Defence of Church-Government, Part 1. Chap. 3. Pag. 8, and elsewhere. John Ball, in his Reply to the Answer of the New-England Elders unto the Nine Positions, Posit, 2. p. 14.
4. This manner of arguing, will countenance the Arguments of the Papists for an Ʋniversal Bishop, because the Jews had such; and justify a Linen Garment at Mass, because there was such among the Jews; and for Holy Water, Purification of Women, Easter, Pentecost, and many more such Ceremonies; for which the Papists do in like manner argue, as appears out of Durandus's Rationals, and other Interpreters of Rituals among the Papists. Yea, what hindereth, but we may give Children the Lord's Supper, if we argue this way, since Samuel, Jesus Christ under ⟨p. 16⟩Age, were partakers of the Passeover? And of right, all the Males were thrice in the Year to appear before the Lord, and therefore it is certain they did eat the Passeover: and it shall be afterwards shewed, that the place,