A26682:93
An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners
An alarm to unconverted sinners, in a serious treatise ... whereunto are annexed Divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolved / by Joseph Alleine, late preacher of the Gospel at Taunton in Somerset-shire.An alarme to unconverted sinners, in a serious treatise ... whereunto are annexed Divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolved / by Joseph Alleine, late preacher of the Gospel at Taunton in Somerset-shire.
London: printed by E.T. and R.H., 1672
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. It is not in the being washed in the laver of Regeneration•• or putting on the badge of Christ ⟨p. 9⟩in baptism. Many take the press-money, and wear the Livery of Christ, that yet never stand to their colours, nor follow their leader. Ananias, and Sapphira, and Magus were baptized, as well as the rest. How fondly do many mistake here, deceiving, and being deceived! dreaming, that effectual grace is necessarily tied to the external administration of baptism, (which what is it, but to revive the popish tenet, of the Sacraments working grace, ex opere operato?) and so every infant should be regenerated, not only (Sacramento tenus) sacramentally, but really and properly. Hence men do fancy, that being regenerated already, when baptized, they need no further work.
2. It is not in the being washed in the laver of Regeneration•• or putting on the badge of Christ ⟨p. 9⟩in baptism. Many take the press-money, and wear the Livery of Christ, that yet never stand to their colours, nor follow their leader. Ananias, and Saphira, and Magus were baptized, as well as the rest. How fondly do many mistake here, deceiving, and being deceived! dreaming, that effectual grace is necessarily tied to the external administration of baptism, (which what is it, but to revive the popish tenent, of the Sacraments working grace, ex opere operato?) and so every infant should be regenerated, not only (Sacramento tenus) sacramentally, but really and properly. Hence men do fancy, that being regenerated already, when baptized, they need no further work.
But if this were so, then all that were baptized (in their infancy) must necessarily be saved: because the promise of pardon and salvation is made to conversion and regeneration. Act. 3. 19.