A47448:495
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He also there says, viz. there is no saving any Person old or young without the Grace of Faith; he Cites Mark 16. 16. Joh. 3. 16. Thus you see, saith he, there is but one way to Eternal Life, either for old or young, that is, through Faith in the righteousness and merits of Christ. Woe be to poor Infants then say I, if they cannot believe as the Adult do; if it be thus, we say there's no way to be saved, but by Christ's merits and righteousness imputed, and that Infants must be sanctified that are saved also; but yet we dare not say they do or can be said, to believe as the Adult, and if they do not they must be damned according to his notion because that is true of all the Adult that believe not.
He also there says, viz. there is no saving any Person old or young without the Grace of Faith; he Cites Mark 16. 16. Joh. 3. 16. Thus you see, saith he, there is but one way to Eternal Life, either for old or young, that is, through Faith in the righteousness and merits of Christ. Wo be to poor Infants then say I, if they cannot believe as the Adult do; if it be thus, we say theres no way to be saved, but by Christ's merrits and righteousness imputed, and that Infants must be sanctified that are saved also; but yet we dare not say they do or can be said, to believe as the Adult, and if they do not they must be damned according to his notion because that is true of all the Adult that believe not.
One while he seems to say that the Infants of believers as such, have habitual Faith.