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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60172	A replication to a late book written by Mr. Benjamin Keach against infants-baptism intituled A counter-antidote, &c. By Gyles Shute of Lime-house.	Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51.	1694 (1694)	Wing S3712; ESTC R221469	41,869	83

Phil. 2. 3. Though the Act of Faith may be said to be the Believers yet the Habit of Faith is Gods for the Believer is wholly passive in the reception of Grace and there must be Habits before there can be Acts there must be the Root of Grace before there can be the Fruit of Grace and a young Infant is as capable of receiving the Habits of Grace wherein the Subjects are wholly passive as an Adult Person is 4. John the Baptist could never have leaped in his Mothers Womb for joy had he not known God in Christ the only true Object of Joy Sir You have measured these Profound Mysteries by the Rule of carnal Reason which is a very false Rule to measure it by The Faith of God doth not stand in the Wisdom of Men. 2. Saith Mr. K. in p. 14. We say the same thing with worthy Mr. Marshal in pag. 78. of his Book which you recited in the 24th pag. of yours viz. That Vnion betwixt Christ and the Soul is fully accomplished by Christ giving the Spirit of Faith to us even before we can Act Faith in the reception of Him because by this Grace or Spirit of Faith the Soul is inclined to an active receiving of Christ Pray Mr. K. did worthy Mr. Marshal say no more If he did how dare you be so unjust to deal thus unfairly by Mr. Marshal as to leave out the conclusion of his Sentence without an c. as if he had said no more Pray Reader look into the Pages Mr. K. hath quoted both of Mr. Marshal's Book and mine and there you will find the conclusion of his Sentence thus viz. And no doubt Christ is thus united to many Infants which have the Spirit of Faith because they are not come to the years of understanding Is this to say the same thing with worthy Mr. Marshal But this is as true as that I spent 20 Leaves in my former Book to prove that which No body denies But pray what hath Mr. Marshal said in this to destroy or enervate the Notion of Habitual Faith in Elect dying Infants For though he hath not used the very same Words yet it is to the same effect and carrieth an Equivalent in it with that of Habitual Faith Now if Mr. K. saith the same thing with worthy Mr. Marshal then Mr. K. and I am agreed 3. Saith Mr. K. Is Regeneration in your Infants that are Regenerated the Fruit or Product of this Spirit of Faith or Habits which you plead for to be infused into them when Infants Sure if they had any such Habits when Infants they need no other inspired Habits when they are grown up Where the Habits and Principles of Grace are once infused into a Soul they can never be lost neither shall they need any other inspired Habits of Grace when they are grown Persons for where these Habits are once planted they can never be destroyed for once in Christ by Regeneration and for ever in Christ by Justification and Sanctification for that Soul is in a State of Grace and hath the Life of Christ in him and that Life can never be lost because it is in Christ the Son of God it is in the keeping of Christ and therefore to speak with Reverence Christ himself may as soon be lost as that 2. We may conclude that many children of Believers that did not die in their Infancy have had the Habits of Grace infused into their Souls in their Infancy and that may be the reason why so many of them when they are grown Persons can tell they have Grace but know not how nor when they came by it No doubt Timothy had Grace infused into him in his Infancy because we read not any thing of his Conversion no more than we do of his Baptism wherefore both might be effected in his Infancy being the Son of a godly Mother But the Apostle Paul could tell the time of his own Conversion and also his Baptism Acts 9. 3. All Infants are conceived in sin Psal 51.5 There are all the Habits or Seeds of sin in an Infant in its first Conception or Formation even as many as there are in an Adult Sinner for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God therefore Elect dying Infants must be regenerated they must be begotten and born of God for God will be a reconciled Father to none but them which he spiritually begets for God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself not imputing their Trespasses unto them Thus you see as young Infants are brought into the same Ballance of Original Guilt and Pollution with Adult old Sinners so they must be brought into the same Ballance of Justification Adoption and Sanctification with Elect Adult Believers or they can never be saved 4. Mr. K. doth own That all Infants are under the guilt and stain of Original Sin by Nature And he also saith We do believe that all those dying Infants who are saved God doth in some way or another which is not known to us sanctifie them for no unclean thing can enter into the Heavenly Jerusalem There is no other way but this viz. Children must be justified and acquitted from the guilt of Original Sin And secondly they must be sanctified and cleansed from the filth and pollution of sin they must be regenerated and made Partakers of the Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1.4 For without Holiness no Man shall see the Lord The Fallen Angels may as well expect to be saved as any unregenerate Soul may either Old or Young that dyeth in that State and Condition 2. All Children are elected and chosen of God that are saved dying in their Infancy and therefore they must have the Grace of Faith to unite them to Christ which is the Faith that is peculiar to Gods Elect Titus 1.1 For all Mankind by Nature are in a state of Unbelief for it was that Sin that brought Man into a State of condemnation for had our first Parents believed God when he told them if they eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they should die Man had never fell into a State of Sin and Condemnation Now the opposite Grace to the Sin of Unbelief is Faith and Habitual Faith by the powerful Agency of the blessed Spirit of Grace is sufficient to subdue and conquer original Unbelief and to justifie and sanctifie them by the application of the Righteousness Blood and Merits of Jesus Christ to their Souls It is not Man's acting Faith that justifies him but it is the Habit of Faith in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ that doth that The Act of Faith in a sense may be said to be the Creatures but the Habit of Faith is Gods own Free Act in the Creature wherefore if Man cannot be justified without his acting of Grace then Justification depends on the Acting of the Creature Though a Believer may be said to have a hand in his own Sanctification yet he hath none at all in his