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A47605	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.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1692 (1692)	Wing K84; ESTC R27451	144,738	231

Stones raise up Children to Abraham if he pleases 2. We do affirm you have as much ground of Faith from any Promise of God to pray that God would illuminate a Stone or a Tree as you have to pray God by Baptism he would regenerate one Infant If you pray not in Faith you sin and if you have no Promise of God to ground your Faith upon when you pray God by Baptism to regenerate an Infant then you cannot pray in Faith Two things you are to prove 1. That God doth require you to baptize Infants 2. Prove that Baptism is appointed of God to regenerate Children or the Adult either if you can 3. I do say that Baptism doth not belong to them who may be said in a remote sense to be capable of Regeneration for Unbelievers are capable of Regeneration or else sad is their condition and are they therefore capable of Baptism Baptism is not an outward Sign of what a Person is capable of or may have hereafter but of that thing or inward spiritual Grace the Person baptized hath at present or gives some evidence of before or at the time when he is baptized and for this I could cite you divers of the Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines You may be as capable to be a Justice of Peace as far as I know as you are to be a Preacher may you therefore give forth Warrants and exercise that Office 4. And lastly I must tell you Infants are not in an ordinary way capable of the Image of God tho they may be capable of Grace and Salvation by Christ because the Image of God consisteth in Knowledg Col. 3.10 And have put on the new Man which is renewed in Knowledg after the Image of him that created him Hence our Annotators tell you that in Regeneration or in restoring the lost Image of God the Understanding must be enlightned and are Children capable of an enlightned Understanding who have no Understanding at all or do you pray God would work Miracles Would it not be a miraculous thing to see a Babe of two or ten days old to have such Knowledg of God and of Jesus Christ Obj. But in Pag. 16. you argue upon us thus viz. Circumcision was instituted for the same end that Baptism is and the Party circumcised was under the same natural Incapacity with the Person baptized And from hence you charge us with Arrogancy as if we would make our selves wiser than God 1. I answer We have proved Circumcision was not instituted for the same end that Baptism is but for several other Grounds and Reasons therefore what you say is not true See our Answer 2. And does it follow because God commanded Abraham to circumcise his Male Infants that you may command Parents to baptize their Infants both Males and Females who are not the Subjects Jesus Christ has commanded in the New Testament to be baptized And do not you herein make your selves wiser than God O how justly may this Arrogancy be retorted back upon your selves Your Brethren the Athenian Society in two or three of their Mercuries tell us in some parts of the World they circumcise their Females and no doubt of it they have as good or better Authority so to do as you have to baptize Children See Vol. 7. Numb 7. Where they say The Creophagians Arabians some of the Descendants of Ishmael did judicially circumcise not only Males but Females Also the Ethiopians especially in the Dominions of Prester John circumcise Females And for further Information they direct to Bartho de Antiquit. Puerperi Bellonius Caelius Rhodoginus and several other Histories and Authors May be they argue as you do the Females are capable as the Males of the Benefits of Circumcision and therefore may Circumcise them 3. Our Argument I must tell you again lies not so much in that Infants are uncapable of any Spiritual Benefit by Baptism had it pleased Almighty God to have commanded them to be baptized as he did the Circumcision of Infants but in that first we cannot find directly nor indirectly I mean either by Precept Example or good Consequences from all God's Word 't is his Mind or Will they should be admitted to Baptism Secondly Because they have not those previous Qualifications which according to the positive and express Law of Christ is necessary in all that ought to be baptized therefore in p. 16 17. you set up a Man of Straw of your own making and then fight with it Had God required Infants to be baptized who could argue against their being capable of it However since actual Faith and the profession of it is required of all that are to be baptized we say Infants who are uncapable to act Faith are not cannot be proper or fit Subjects for that Sacrament 2. Because none are to be baptized by virtue of Christ's Law and Commission Matth. 28. but such who are made Disciples by being first taught Infants who are not capable so to be made Disciples ought not to be baptized And to these two Arguments we will now see your Answer pag. 18. of your Book which is as followeth viz. That a Profession of Faith is necessarily required before Baptism in all Adult Persons that is Persons grown up to riper Years who are say you the Persons whom our Saviour meant when he said He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved as most evidently appears by the words following He that believeth not shall be damned Mark 16.16 What! must all that die in their Infancy go to Hell for an Impossibility The Text only intends such as by hearing the Gospel preached are capable of actual Faith such as enjoy the Means of Faith and yet live and die in neglect of Faith and contempt of Baptism shall certainly be damned 2 Thess 3.10 says the Apostle If any Man will not work neither let him eat that is such as are capable to work must not eat But must Children be starved because they cannot work Thus say you here Children lie under a natural Incapacity of professing actual Faith therefore the first Text doth not concern them any more than the latter Answ I. Sir You have given away your Cause now for ever If this Text Mark 16.16 does no more concern Infants than that in 2 Thess 3.10 then be sure as they having nothing to do with Faith so have they nothing to do with Baptism for all the Learned generally as one Man do and must confess the Commission of our Saviour is our great Warrant and Rule for Baptizing Therefore saith Mr. Baxter if we find it not here where have we it Now this in Mark contains the Commission of Christ viz. who they be that he would have to be baptized and they are such who believe Matthew says in repeating the words of the same Commission such who are discipled or made Disciples And you say Infants are no more concerned in this Text than in that where the Apostle only intends