The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

2. It is not the being washed in the laver of Regeneration, or putting on the badge of Christ ⟨image 21⟩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 tenens) 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 ⟨image 21⟩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 Baptsim, (which what is it, but to revive the Popish •enent, of the Sacraments working grace, ex opere operato?) and so every Infant should be regenerated, not only (Sacramento tenens) 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. Acts 3. 19. 1 Pet. 1. 3, 4