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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

pre●●●ted by the ancient Fathers of old and the 〈◊〉 Divines doth well agree with an Institution that is a mere positive Right wholly depending on the sovereign Will of the Legislation doth not give just cause to all ●o question its Authority 1. Some Pedo-Baptists asserted it took away Original Sin and such who denied it were Anathematized 2. Some affirm That Children are in Covenant and being the Seed of Believers are federally ●oly therefore to be baptized 3. Another sort of Pedo-Baptists say They ought to be baptized by virtue of their Parents Faith 4. Another sort baptize them upon the Faith of their Sureties 5. Others say By the Faith of the Church as Au●●i● Bernard c. 6. Others say they have Faith themselves and therefore must be baptized 7. Some say it is a 〈◊〉 Apostolical 〈◊〉 Tradition but others deny that and say it may be proved from the Scripture 8. Others say it is a regenerating Ordinance and Infants thereby are put into a savable Some Others say the Infants of Believers are safe before because in Covenant with their Parents To this Query they say nothing pretending they had answered it before Query 8. Whether that can be an Ordinance of Christ for which there is neither Precept nor Example nor plain and undeniable Consequences for it in all God's Word nor Promise made to such who do it nor Threat denounced on such who neglect it This they say they answered in one of our Arguments Their Answer is there about Womens receiving the Sacrament c. Query 9. Whether in matter of mere positive Right such as Bap●ism is we ought not to keep expresly and punctually to the Revelation of the Will of the Law giver They answer Yes Reply Then your Cause is lost for God's Word expresly directs us to baptize only such who are first taught or made Disciples by teaching or who make a Profession of their Faith And Dipping is the express and direct Act of Baptizing as practised in the New Testament and a great Cloud of Witnesses testify Query 10. Wh●●her the Baptism of Infants be not a dangerous Error since it tends to deceive poor ignorant People who think they were thereby made Christians and regenerated and so never look after any other Regeneration nor Baptism that represents or holds forth that inwar● Work of God's Grace They answer They never tell them they are made Christians throughly c. Reply Then I appeal to all Men who have read the old Church-Catechism In my Baptism wherein I was made a Child of God a Member of Christ and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven 11. Since we read but of one Baptism in Water and that one Baptism is that of the Adult i. e. such who profess Faith c. how can Infant-Baptism or rather Rantism be an Ordinance of Christ 12. Whether God hath any where commanded or injoined Parents to bring their little Babes of two or ten days old into a Covenant with himself by Baptism since 't is not to be found in all the Scripture If not how can that Covenant oblige their Child when he comes to Age if it be so great a Sin not to perform that Covenant or to renounce the thing it self Whether there is any Covenant appointed by Christ for Infants to enter into unto which no Promise is made of Assistance to perform it nor of Blessing if it be kept nor one Threatning if cast off and disowned 13. What should be the reason that our Translators of the holy Bible should leave the Greek word Baptism● or Baptisma ●●●ranslated seeing the Dutch have not done so but contrariwise translate for John Baptist John the Dipper and for he baptized them he dipped them The Athenian Society answ●● They are the best Judges themselves if we can understand them 't is enough Reply No tho the Learned in the Greek do know what the word Baptizo and Baptisma is yet the Unlearned in that Tongue do not know that 't is to dip or Immersion therefore 't is not enough 14. Whether such who have only been sprinkled ought not to be deemed unbaptized Persons since Aspersion is not Immersion or Rantizing not Baptizing seeing the Greek word signifies to dip and tho sometimes to wash yet such a washing as is by dipping as the Learned confess To this they say Those that doubt may be of the sure side Ten ARGUMENTS against Pedo-Baptism Arg. I. Those that our Saviour commanded in his Commission to be baptized were such who were first discipled by the Word Infants are not discipled by the Word Ergo Infants according to Christ's Command in the Commission ought not to be baptized Arg. II. To believe and repent are required of all that ought to be baptized Infants are not required to believe and repent Ergo They ought not to be baptized Arg. III. The Church of England saith Faith and Repentance is required of such who are to be baptized and she speaks the Truth in so saying and if Infants cannot perform Faith and Repentance then Infants ought not to be baptized But the Church of England says Faith and Repentance is required of such who are to be baptized and she speaks the Truth in so saying and Infants cannot perform Faith and Repentance Ergo Infants ought not to be baptized The Athenians in Answer to this Argument say The Church of England means only the Adult who are capable c. Reply They mean Infants also why else do they add Yes verily they that is Infants do perform it by their Sureties c. And how true that is I leave to all Men to judg Arg. IV. If there is not one Precedent in all the Scripture as there is no Precept that one Infant was baptized then Infant-Baptism is unlawful But there is not one Precedent in all the Scripture as there is not one Precept that one Infant was baptized Ergo Infant-Baptism is unlawful The Athenians answer Shew us a Precedent for our Wives communicating they mean to receive the Lord's Supper which we have answered already Arg. V. St. Paul declared or made known the whole Counsel of God St. Paul did not declare or make known Infant-Baptism Ergo Infant-Baptism is none of God's Counsel Arg. VI. The holy Scripture being a perfect Rule of Faith and Practice either by Precept or Example makes known every positive Law and Institution of Christ But the holy Scripture doth not make known neither by Precept for Example Infant-Baptism Ergo Infant-Baptism is no Institution of Christ Arg. VII That Doctrine and Practice that reflects on the Honour and Faithfulness of Jesus Christ who was not less faithful than Moses can be no Ordinance of Christ But the Doctrine and Practice of Infant-Baptism reflects on the Honour and Faithfulness of Jesus Christ who was not less faithful than Moses Ergo Infant-Baptism is no Ordinance of Christ The Athenian Society answer The Obscurity of the Ordinance of Infant-Baptism does not at all reflect on the