Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…

Austin speaks,¹ put him on, only usque ad Sacramenti perceptionem, non usque ad vitae Sanctificationem, unto a perception of the Sacrament, not unto sanctification of life. They are buried with Christ, and risen with him; feeling his death in their mortification, his resurrection in their Divine Life. Baptism is for the remission of sins, but it is to those who by Faith are capable of it; it is a Laver of regeneration, as the Gospel is the Power of God to Salvation, not to all, but to Believers.

1. 1Contr. Don. lib. 5. c. 24.

As touching Infants, the Learned Professors of Leiden require Faith not only in the Adult,¹ but in Infants too, in order to Baptism. Infants may be put into three ranks: Some Infants are in their infancy in union with Christ; they have Faith in the seed, though not in the fruit; Grace in the gift, though not in the use; they have the ⟨p. 207⟩Spirit dwelling in them,² and are a part of his Temple, though they know him not: Neither needs this seem strange, it is very reasonable to believe, that a supernatural power may do as much as a natural one; the Image of God, which, if Adam had stood, would have passed to Infants by natural generation, may well be derived to them by spiritual regeneration. It's granted on all hands, that some Infants at least enter into life eternal; But what? do they do so unjustified, unsanctified? Surely no, in Heaven there is not so much as the guilt of one unremitted sin; those Infants, who go thither, must be justified; if they be justified, they must have Faith and Sanctification; Faith, because justification is by it. The Scripture knows not two ways of justification, one by Faith, another without it; Sanctification, because Justification is never separate from it; But you are sanctified, but you are justified, saith the Apostle,