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A25662 The antidote proved a counterfeit, or, Error detected and believers baptism vindicated containing an answer to a nameless author's book entituled An antidote to prevent the prevalency of anabaptism / by Hercules Collins. Collins, Hercules, d. 1702. 1693 (1693) Wing A3498; ESTC R26646 22,680 25

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may also be applied unto David it signifieth nothing to the point Thou didst make me hope when upon my mothers breasts that is thou didst give me sufficient ground for hope and trust if I had been capable of acting that grace and v. 10. I was cast upon thee from the womb thou art my God from my mothers belly that is I was like one forsaken by his parents and cast wholly upon thy Providence see our late Annotations But for all this Infants have habitual Faith saith our Antagonist but his arguments are so feeble that maintain it that it 's like a tottering Fence well but what if I should ask what do you mean by Habitual Faith I think there cannot be less in the word than this that they have an Inclination to believe and that they have Power Might Ability to believe and if it be so what is the reason they do not believe surely if they have Power Strength and Ability to believe is it not reasonable they should be damned if they do not believe which are his own words page 17 no Faith no Salvation neither for Young nor Old If by Habit he meant an Inclination to believe a disposition to believe then let him prove they have such a disposition and what it is that hinders their believing we say a person that is disposed to a thing hath power actually to do it If he do not understand the meaning of the word habitual why did he write it was it to confound the Ignorant with the word Infant-seed of believers being in Covenant what is meant by being in Covenant there are thousands of themselves know nothing of it Seeing they do not mean the Election of Grace for my part I think Transubstantiation habitual Faith and the Infant seed of believers in the covenant are terms equally allowable and probably equally understood among their various Professors this habitual Faith in Infants is much of the likeness of our Athenian assertion that Infants have faith Potentia tho not Actu visibli so you say they have habitual though not actual visible Faith for my part I think it calls for a prodigious Faith for any man to believe Infants have faith potentia or habitual all you have done is only begging when you should have been a digging But I think you have given away your Cause and habitual Faith too in page 26. in these words God is a free Agent and bestows his Gifts of Grace and Mercy upon whom he pleaseth May not an earthly King bestow his bounty upon a poor dumb Cripple that can neither ask nor go to him for it no nor return him vocal thanks Is not this to allow and say what I have said That Infants are happy through the imputed righteousness of Christ tho as poor dumb Cripples that can neither ask nor go nor return thanks So that tho in effect he saith as I do yet calls my Sentence a strange Sentence which asserts Infants sins are done away by the Imputation of Christs Righteousness page 18. And would any man but one void of common sense urge such Scriptures for Infant inherent Faith as Rom. 3.26 God is the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus Eph. 2.8 9 By Grace are ye saved through Faith not of works lest any man should boast Gal. 3.22 But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by Faith of Jesus Christ might be given them which believe And Mark 16.16 He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved And Gal. 6.15 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision nor Vncircumcision availeth any thing but Faith which worketh by Love or a new Creature And he might as well have added 1 Cor 7. But the keeping of the Commands of God Rom. 5.1 being justified by Faith we have peace with God through our I L●●●●●sus Christ Rom. 3.28 Therefore we conclude a Man is Justified by Faith without the deeds of the Law Doth this man think in his Conscience that ever these things were written or Preached unto Infants or in any sense intended that Infants should have the comfort of it if not why are all these Scriptures applyed unto them when God never intended it for them I hope he hath been taught better to Expound the Scripture But still he positively asserts Infants have Faith and do believe and proves it by two Infallible Witnesses as he thinks the one is Mark 9.42 And who so shall offend one of those little ones which believe in me it were better for him a milstone were hanged about his neck and cast into the Sea These little ones he asserts are Infants but I would fain know had I a mind to offend a believing Infant how should I know which were him There is no more appears in one Infant than another Secondly Men must know such a one which owns Christ for it is because he owns Christ that any of the wicked offend him But how shall I know the Infant with his Inherent Grace and Faith what Family he is in where he dwells should I have a mind to offend him Again how shall the Infant know I am offended with him for his believing in Christ Mark Reader the verse before Whosoever shall give a Cup of Water to drink in my Name because they belong to Christ shall not lose his reward Then the next words are And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me So that you see these little ones Christ speaks of are such as go under the notion of Christ's Disciples making a visible profession and if we do the least kindness for them we shall not lose our reward But how shall I know which Infant it is that hath habitual Faith that stands in need of this Cup of Water It cannot discover its own thirst and so the poor Infant may Die though I had a mind to relieve it The Eighteenth of Matthew is brought in by Christ upon the same account to abate the pride of the Disciples who were disco●rsing who should be greatest and be the highest in Heaven upon this Christ calls a little Child and tells them except they were Spiritually what that Child was Naturally in Meekness Humility free from Revenge and Pride They could not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven So he goes on whoso shall offend one of those little ones which believe in me not the little Infant or Child called and set in the midst but those Believers that were like them in Humility wrought by Faith in Christ for had I a mind to please or displease an Infant with his habitual Faith I know not where to find him and surely our Lord did not speak of such who were never like to be known Oh when will you cease to pervert the right word of the Lord How disingenuous are you in saying I owned they were Infant-Children but would not own they believed My speaking those words was not from those Scriptures but two others namely Luke 18. and Matt. 19. 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