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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.

3. It was the constant Doctrine of these Father• •nd the Church, then, that Faith and Repentance (given in […]) did go first; and that Justification, Adoption, and San••i•iaion followed after. (And so hold all the reformed Divine that I know of, till Mr. Pemble lately contradicted it.) And so they took this Justifying Faith and true Repentance to be prerequisite to Baptism; and therefore note, 1. That all the forementioned terms describe only Justification and Sanctification. 2. That they never speak a word of Justifying Faith or Repentance infused by Baptism; for these are supposed. 3. That therefore they ever enquired before hand whether they believed in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and renounced the Flesh, the World, and the Devil (as is aforesaid;) and caused them to profess this before they would baptized them.