Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

Answ. 1. It is undeniable that they took all that were duly baptized, to be presently in a state of salvation, without any delay: and therefore they did not take Baptism as a common Ordinance to lead men up to the use of other Church Ordinances, as the Supper, &c. (which is also common to the notoriously ungodly,) and so to saving grace.

2. And if the catholic Church hath in all ages thus annexed saving Grace to Baptism, and made any common faith the condition qualifying the person for this Baptism, then it would be plain that they all affixed saving Grace to the preparation of common Grace, and so the Catholic Church hath been Pelagian: which he that shall affirm, will do that for the Pelagian Cause which will better please the Jesuits than any considerate Reformed Divines. It is therefore not to be doubted o• but that it was some Antecedent special Grace to which they thus confidently affixed other saving Grace. Which will the more appear, in that Austin himself, and those that followed him against the Pelagians, and the councils that opposed them, went all the same way; which could not be the Pelagian way.

2. And if the •atholike Church hath in all ages thus annexed saving Grace to Baptism, and made any common faith the condition qualifying the person for this Baptism, then it would be plain that they all affixed saving Grace to the preparation of common Grace, and so the Catholike Church hath been Pelagian: which he that shall affirm, will do that for the Pelagian Cause which will better please the Jesuites than any considerate Reformed Divines. It is therefore not to be doubted o• but that it was some Antecedent special Grace to which they thus confidently affixed other saving Grace. Which will the more appear, in that Austine himself, and those that followed him against the Pelagians, and the •ouncils that opposed them, went all the same way; which could not be the Pelagian way.