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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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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?
Besides, if John Baptist, or Jeremiah the Prophet were Regenerated in the Womb, or any other Infants, then it would follow they were not born Children of wrath as others: Nor could their Regeneration be called a being born again (as I hinted before) but their first Birth must be so called.
You I see apply those Scriptures where our Lord Jesus Speaks of the Adult, to Infants, as that, Mark 16. 16. John. 3. 3. So that ⟨p. 20⟩