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Rich. Baxter's review of the state of Christian's infants whether they should be entered…
Rich. Baxter's review of the state of Christian's infants whether they should be entered in covenant with God by baptism ... or whether Christ, the Saviour of the world, hath shut all mankind out of his visible kingdom ... 'till they come of age? : occasioned by the importunity of Mr. E. Hutchinson (and of Mr. Danvers and Mr. Tombs) who called him to this review in order to his retractation [sic] ...Rich. Baxter's review of the state of Christian's infants whether they should be entered in covenant with God by baptism ... or whether Christ, the Saviour of the world, hath shut all mankind out of his visible kingdom ... 'till they come of age? : occasioned by the importunity of Mr. E. Hutchinson (and of Mr. Danvers and Mr. Tombes) who called him to this review in order to his retractation [sic] ...
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But the great difficulty which it will be expected that I resolve, is, Whether I do not imply, That all the Children of true Christians dedicated to God, having saving Grace in their Infancy, many after fall from it, seeing experience tells us, that too many prove ungodly.
But the great difficulty which it will be expected that I resolve, is, Whether I do not imply, That all the Children of true Christians dedicated to God, having saving Grace in their Infancy, many after fall from it, seing experience tells us, that too many prove ungodly.
I Answer, 1. So much of Scripture, and so great and many Mercies must not be all denied, when a difficulty ariseth in the way, which we cannot at the present answer: Else what would become of most mens Christianity it self?
I Answer, 1. So much of Scripture, and so great and many Mercies must not be all denyed, when a difficulty ariseth in the way, which we cannot at the present answer: Else what would become of most mens Christianity it self?
2. This was no difficulty to the ancient Fathers, no not to Augustin and his followers, and so to all the known Church of Christ for a thousand years after the Apostles, who commonly held that even of the Adult, many fall from true Grace, Justification, and a state of Life; some appropriating perseverance to the Elect, (as Austin) and some to the confirmed in Grace, and some to both.
2. This was no difficulty to the antient Fathers, no not to Augustin and his followers, and so to all the known Church of Christ for a thousand years after the Apostles, who commonly held that even of the Adult, many fall from true Grace, Justification, and a state of Life; some appropriating perseverance to the Elect, (as Austin) and some to the confirmed in Grace, and some to both.