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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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2. If Children be part of their Parents, then certainly if the Parents go to Heaven all their Children must likewise, for the Whole of believers shall be saved, not a Part of them only. Also if the Children be part of their Parents, and a part of the Person, namely the Face, only is sufficient to be Baptized, then say I the Parents Baptism may serve for the Child: And the truth is, as the Bishop of Down noted, viz. Since as some affirm the Parents Faith serves for the Child, why may not the Parents Baptism serves for the Child also You say, That little Children by the Cooperation of the Holy Spirit may have Faith, and the heart of an Adult Person is no more capable of changing himself than a• Infant, and Quote Luther in the case.
2. If Children be part of their Parents, then certainly if the Parents go to Heaven all their Children must likewise, for the Whole of believers shall be saved, not a Part of them only. Also if the Children be part of their Parents, and a part of the Person, namely the Face, only is sufficient to be Baptized, then say I the Parents Baptism may serve for the Child: And the truth is, as the Bishop of Down noted, viz. Since as some affirm the Parents Faith serves for the Child, why may not the Parents Baptism serves for the Child also• You say, That little Children by the Cooperation of the Holy Spirit may have Faith, and the heart of an Adult Person is no more capable of changing himself than a• Infant, and Quote Luther in the case.
Answer, 'Tis true little Children may have Faith if God please to work a Miracle, and Inspire them with his Spirit: But doth God do this to the Infants of Believers • I ask also, Whether the Infants of […] not as capable of this Faith? nay I•rffirm▪ that as many of the Children of Infidels and unbelievers may have the Cooperation of the Spirit in them as the Infants of believers. Disprove it if you can?