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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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We say the same with worthy Mr. Marshal, in Page 78. of his Book; which you recite in the 24th. Page of yours, viz. that Union between Christ and the Soul is fully accomplished by Christ giving the Spirit of Faith to us, even before we can Act Faith in the reception of him; because by this grace or Spirit of Faith, the Soul is inclined to an active receiving of Christ. What of this? tho' 'tis thus in the Adult, must this Spirit of Faith or the Habit of Faith be therefore in Infants of Relievers also? Sir, let me ask you two or three questions here before I leave this.
Is Regeneration in your Infants that are Regenerated, the fruit or product of that Spirit of Faith or Habits which you plead for, to be infused into them when Infants? sure if they had any such Habits, when Infants, they need no other inspired Habits when they are grown up.
2. I would know since you speak only of those habits to be in Believers Infants, whether they were infused before they were born or after?
3. Seeing some Infants of Infidels or Unbelievers may be elected, nay and it appears to us by Gods working upon the Hearts of such when grown up, (that they were comprehended in his electing love) had not they likewise when Infants habitual Faith and so an equal right to Baptism?