A47448:186
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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Again, he saith, it is spoken of the Ministry of John Baptist, which did burn as an Oven, and left them neither the Root of Abraham's Covenant, nor the Branches of their own good works; he cutteth them off from the Covenant of Abraham and so by cutting them off from the root, he leaveth them no ground to trust to, Page 21, 22. you say the new creature in the Womb, or in the Cradle, is as perfect and complete in all its lineaments as in the oldest Saint on Earth, Page 40. &c.
Again, he saith, it is spoken of the Ministry of John Baptist, which did burn as an Oven, and left them neither the Root of Abrahams Covenant, nor the Branches of their own good works; he cutteth them off from the Covenant of Abraham and so by cutting them off from the root, he leaveth them no ground to trust to, Page 21, 22. you say the new creature in the Womb, or in the Cradle, is as perfect and compleat in all its lineaments as in the oldest Saint on Earth, Page 40. &c.
Answer, Sir, do not mistake your self, if Infants are any of them regenerated in the Womb, then Regeneration in them is the first, birth but Regeneration is a being born again, or a second Generation which is wrought by the Holy Spirit, therefore it can't proceed from believing Parents in any wise, they can by their Faith contribute nothing to the second Birth: Now show at what time 'tis that regeneration is wrought in your Infants. O take heed; for tho' God doth regenerate the Souls of dying Infants, that are saved. Yet what is this to the Infants of Believers, as such?
Answer, Sir, do not mistake your self, if Infants are any of them regenerated in the Womb, then Regeneration in them is the first, birth but Regeneration is a being born again, or a second Generation which is wrought by the Holy Spirit, therefore it can't proceed from believing Parents in any wise, they can by their Faith contribute nothing to the second Birth: Now shew at what time 'tis that regeneration is wrought in your Infants. O take heed; for tho' God doth regenerate the Souls of dying Infants, that are saved. Yet what is this to the Infants of Believers, as such?