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A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to…
A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to God in order to their eternal salvation showing the thoughtful sinner what he must do to be saved / by Joseph Alleine.A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to God in order to their eternal salvation shewing the thoughtful sinner what he must do to be saved / by Joseph Alleine.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
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 the being washed in the laver of Regeneration, or putting on the badge of Christ 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 the being washed in the laver of Regeneration, or putting on the badge of Christ 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.