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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, We say there is but one way to be saved, and that one way is Jesus Christ; 'tis by his Sacrifice, by his Blood, by his merits, that is, by the imputation of his righteousness; but that there is the same Way or Mode and no other, for the Application of the Blood and Merits of Christ respecting elect dying Infants, as there is for the Adult; and that God doth not, cannot sanctify dying Infants any other way but by infusing the same habit of Faith, which he infuseth into the Adult who believe, he should prove. God is a free Agent, and may have ways to apply the Blood of Christ and Sanctify dying Infants, that we know not of.
2. As to the Text he brings to prove habitual Faith in Infants, of believers, if it be not brought to prove that, that Seed or divine Habit is in infants of believers, as such, it does not concern the present controversy; 'tis Joh. 3. 9 which we will now consider and examine. And let it be well noted, That the Seed remaineth in him, that sacred habit abides in him, that hath it; it remains and shall remain in every Soul in whom it is infused▪ grace in the habit can't be lost, 'Tis a Well or Spring of living Water, that springeth up unto Eternal Life, Joh. 4. 14. Christ hath prayed, That our Faith fail not; that is, the Seed ⟨p. 13⟩or Habit thereof; for the Act, in the exercise of it in part may fail now and then; if the Infants of Believers have the Habit of Faith in them, be sure those Habits will appear, and they must be true Believers and be saved, because the Seed remaineth in them.
2. As to the Text he brings to prove habitual Faith in Infants, of believers, if it be not brought to prove that, that Seed or divine Habit is in infants of believers, as such, it does not concern the present controversie; 'tis Joh. 3. 9 which we will now consider and examine. And let it be well noted, That the Seed remaineth in him, that sacred habit abides in him, that hath it; it remains and shall remain in every Soul in whom it is infused grace in the habit can't be lost, 'Tis a Well or Spring of living Water, that springeth up unto Eternal Life,