A26864:516
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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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.
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 undenyable: 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.
Argu. 16. If it be only true justifying Faith that gives men right coram Deo (by vertue of his Covenant) to the Sacrament of the Lords Sup••r and so be prerequisite to that Sacrament, and not only to be promised for he future; then the same may be said of baptism. But the Antecedent is true; therefore.