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A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by…
A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by Mr. Giles Shute ... being an answer to his vindication of his pretended Antidote to prevent the prevalency of Anabaptism, showing that Mr. Hercules Collins's reply to the said author remains unanswered : wherein the baptism of believers is evinced to be God's ordinance, and the baptized congregations proved true churches of Jesus Christ : with a further detection of the error of pedo-baptism : to which is added, An answer to Mr. Shute's reply to Mr. Collins's half-sheet / by Benjamin Keach.A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by Mr. Gyles Shute ... being an answer to his vindication of his pretended Antidote to prevent the prevalency of Anabaptism, shewing that Mr. Hercules Collins's reply to the said author remains unanswered : wherein the baptism of believers is evinced to be God's ordinance, and the baptized congregations proved true churches of Jesus Christ : with a further detection of the error of pedo-baptism : to which is added, An answer to Mr. Shute's reply to Mr. Collins's half-sheet / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for H. Bernard, 1694
Chapter 2: Wherein Mr. Shutes Reply to Mr. Hercules Collins Answer about habitual Faith is conside…
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Such as is the Cause, such is the effect or product of it. How God doth Sanctify dying Infants (I speak as to the Mode of it) no mortal Man I am sure can tell; if it is by infusing Grace, let it be so, tho' it can't be proved whilst the World stands, yet Gods design therein could not be the same in them as it is in others; he expecteth no such fruit from them: Nor can any Gospel ordinance be the right of such Infants nor any other, without a precept or example from Gods word.
Baptism (as you have heard) is a significant ordinance, 'tis an outward sign of mortification of sin and of Vivification to a new life, and •aith is required in respect of the act of it touching the gracious promise of God made to all such who are the true subjects thereof, see what Dr. Taylor Late Bishop of Down speaks about this notion of Infants having habitual faith, viz. are there any Acts precedent▪ concomitant or consequent to this pretended habit? this strange invention is absolutely without Art, without Scripture, Reason, or Authority. And further, saith he, if any run for succour to that exploded Cresphu•eton, that Infants have faith or any other inspired habit of I know not what, or how, we desire no more advantage than that they are constrained to answer without Revelation, against reason, common sense and all experience.
Again, he saith, how can any Man know they have faith, since he never saw any sign of it, neither was he told so by any that could tell? Thus Dr. Taylor.