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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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CHAP. II. Wherein Mr. Shutes Reply to Mr. Hercules Collins Answer about habitual Faith is considered, detected and clearly refuted; proving that Infants are not required to believe, nor are they (without a miracle) capable so to do, nor are they intended in those places of Scripture that Enjoins Faith on the Adult.
CHAP. II. Wherein Mr. Shutes Reply to Mr. Hercules Collins Answer about habitual Faith is considered, detected and clearly refuted; proving that Infants are not required to believe, nor are they (without a miracle) capable so to do, nor are they intended in those places of Scripture that Enjoyns Faith on the Adult.
Before I proceed to take notice of what this Man hath said about Infants having habitual Faith, I shall note two or three things by the Way.
BEfore I proceed to take notice of what this Man hath said about Infants having habitual Faith, I shall note two or three things by the Way.
1. 'Tis very remarkable, and worthy the Readers observation, to see how the asserters of Infant Baptism differ among themselves about that Faith they suppose to be in Infants; ⟨p. 12⟩for, as I noted in by Answer to Mr. Smithies Cold resined, Page 144, some of them, as Thomas Aquinas asserts, They have the Faith of the Church, that being entailed upon all who are within the Pale thereof; others say, they have the Faith of the Gossips or Sureties; thus the Church of England, &c. Musculus seems to assert, they have an Imputed Faith; Mr. Blake intimates, They have a Dogmatical Faith only; Mr. Baxter would have it be a saving Faith; but does not tell us how it agrees or differs from the Faith of the Adult; some as Mr. Danvers observes, say, 'Tis a Physical; some, a Metaphysical Faith some a hyperphysical Faith: Some say, They are born Believers, which proceeds from their Patents being in the Covenant and being Believers; but this is to entail Grace to Nature, and Regeneration to Generation; nay, and to assert, all are not Children of Wrath by nature, or as they are born and come into the World; others say, They are made Believers by Baptism, that Ordinance conveying grace, as Mr. Rothwell. This Man asserts, they have habitual Faith; the like do the Athenian Society seem to intimate. But which of all these shall we give credit to? The Truth is, they all speak without Book, having no ground from Gods word to say what they do.