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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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In Page 41. Mr. Sh•te reflects upon Mr. Collins because he calls Infants ignorant Babes, See his words, viz. He seems to make the ignorance of young Infants to be too hard a match for the Wisdom and Power of God, and renders Infants, wholly uncapable of receiving the Seeds of Grace.
Answer, Doth Mr. Collins question the wisdom and power of God, because he affirms Infants are morally uncapable of those habits of Faith which are in Adult persons? What cannot God do? no doubt he that placed in Infants the Seed or habit of natural knowledge, will, affections, &c. can inspire Infants with the habits of Divine Grace, nay, and as easily bring those Natural and Divine habits in their Infancy when infused, into Acts and Exercise also, according to their distinct natures and Operations as in the Adult: But for any to assert that God doth this is the business, and 'tis that which we do deny, and say, God infuses no such habits into any Infants (that we know of) who are out of a moral capacity to Act and improve those habits, according as they dispose, incline, and impower all that have them.
Answer, Doth Mr. Collins question the wisdom and power of God, because he affirms Infants are morally uncapable of those habits of Faith which are in Adult persons? What cannot God do? no doubt he that placed in Infants the Seed or habit of natural knowledg, will, affections, &c. can inspire Infants with the habits of Divine Grace, nay, and as easily bring those Natural and Divine habits in their Infancy when infused, into Acts and Exercise also, according to their distinct natures and Operations as in the Adult: But for any to assert that God doth this is the business, and 'tis that which we do deny, and say, God infuses no such habits into any Infants (that we know of) who are out of a moral capacity to Act and improve those habits, according as they dispose, incline, and impower all that have them.