A26864:515
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
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It would be tedious and needless to the Intelligent, to heap up Scripture proof of the minor, viz. that the Gospel preached before baptism, is appointed for an ordinary means of working true conversion. We see it was ordinarily done, else Preachers could not endeavour it, or hope or pray for it. The consequence is manifest, in that Mr. Bl. makes this true justifying Faith, and consequently true Repentance, to be not prerequisite to baptism, but to be engaged for as to the future performance. And therefore regularly it must be only the word after Baptism that must truly Convert, or not at all.
It would be tedious and needless to the Intelligent, to heap up Scripture proof of the minor, viz. that the Gospel preached before baptism, is appointed for an ordinary means of working true conversion. We see it was ordinarily done, else Preachers could not endeavor it, or hope or pray for it. The consequence is manifest, in that Mr. Bl. makes this true justifying Faith, and consequently true Repentance, to be not prerequisite to baptism, but to be engaged for as to the future performance. And therefore regularly it must be only the word after Baptism that must truly Convert, or not at all.
Argu. 15. If Mr. Blake's Doctrine be true, then regularly it must be supposed that all persons are in a state of damnation immediately on their baptism; and if they then dyed, should perish. But the consequent is false; therefore so is the Antecedent.
Argu. 15. If Mr. Blakes Doctrine be true, then regularly it must be supposed that all persons are in a state of damnation immediately on their baptism; and if they then dyed, should perish. But the consequent is false; therefore so is the Antecedent.
For the Consequence; if Mr. Blake mean, that it is any space of time after baptism that we engage to begin our justifying Faith in, then the consequence is undeniable: for till then, the person is unjustified. But if he mean that in baptism they must engage to believe to Justification in the same instant of time, then this is to make such Faith necessary in the instant of baptism; and this is but an evident vanity, to suppose a man not believing to justification, who yet can and must promise to do it in the same instant, or the next.