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Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…
Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its resemblances, bonds, seals, privileges and marks by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its resemblances, bonds, seals, priviledges and marks by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.
London: printed by A.M. and R.R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1680
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Some Infants, though baptized, never are in union with Christ; some Divines conceive that all baptized Infants are regenerate, but common observation opposes this; multitudes there are of Infants baptized, who at years of understanding show forth nothing at all of a Divine principle; Reason and Will appear, but nothing of Grace. It may be reasonably expected in regenerate persons, that the Seed of God should spring up, that the supernatural principles should come forth into act in some measure; but when there is no print or footstep of Grace, no dye or tincture of it in the life, it cannot well be imagined, that there is any such thing as regeneration in them: To such Infants as these, Baptism doth not seal union. I conclude with the Learned Bishop Abbot, 1In Christo baptizantur omnes qui baptizati sunt, in Christum non baptizantur nisi qui transeunt in Christum, corpusque ejus & membra fiunt. All that are baptized, are baptized in Christ; but none are baptized into Christ, but those who pass into him, and are made his body and members.
Some Infants, though baptized, never are in union with Christ; some Divines conceive that all baptized Infants are regenerate, but common observation opposes this; multitudes there are of Infants baptized, who at years of understanding shew forth nothing at all of a Divine principle; Reason and Will appear, but nothing of Grace. It may be reasonably expected in regenerate persons, that the Seed of God should spring up, that the supernatural principles should come forth into act in some measure; but when there is no print or footstep of Grace, no dye or tincture of it in the life, it cannot well be imagined, that there is any such thing as regeneration in them: To such Infants as these, Baptism doth not seal union. I conclude with the Learned Bishop Abbot, 1In Christo baptizantur omnes qui baptizati sunt, in Christum non baptizantur nisi qui transeunt in Christum, corpusque ejus & membra fiunt. All that are baptized, are baptized in Christ; but none are baptized into Christ, but those who pass into him, and are made his body and members.
- 1In Thoms. Diatr. cap. 7.