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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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If he by Children means Infants, I do deny, it, and b•d him prove what he says, for the▪ Text he mentions in Luk. 1. 41. proves no such, thing: What tho` the Babe leaped in the Womb of Elizabeth, doth that prove the Babe had faith or the habit of it? Neither doth that in 2 Tim. 1. 5.
What tho' St. Paul was persuaded that Timothy had when an Adult person, like unfeigned saith that was in his Gran mother Lois, and in his Mother Eunice doth that prove he had the habit of Faith in him when an Infant?
What tho' St. Paul was perswaded that Timothy had when an Adult person, like unfeigned saith that was in his Gran mother Lois, and in his Mother Eunice doth that prove he had the habit of Faith in him when an Infant?
If you say that the habit of Grace may be in a person, and yet nor appear, act nor influence or dispose the person according to the nature and quality of it, you may as well say there may b• a principle of life in a person and yet he may be dead, or have no Life, Sense, feeling, or motion in him; or there may be ⟨p. 22⟩Fire, and no Heat, a Sun and no light, Water and no moisture; also you contradict all Divines and wise Men in the World in their notions about a habit of Grace or vital Principle: they say where these habits are there is Divine Life, there is a Spirit of love and other Graces, whereby as their understandings are possessed with knowledge of the excellencies of Gods ways, so their wills are seasoned by the power of those habits, and as the old nature is the habit of Sin, so the new nature is the habit of Grace; where the habit of Faith is, they tell you there is a ready disposition to every good work, and as 'tis ready in respect of disposition so it is in the activity of motion, yea that 'tis naturally active according to its Divine nature; and voluntary active. And where these habits are there is a kind of natural necessity of motion from life and habit, &c.