wherever I shall for brevity’s sake only say this much, that the elect do receive the Spirit in baptism; my purpose is to have it understood with all those conditions and limitations before expressed, in stating the point. So that it must always be in this way interpreted. viz., That it is most agreeable to the institution of Christ, that all elect infants that are baptized (unless in some extraordinary cases) ordinarily receive the Spirit from Christ in baptism, for their first solemn initiation into Christ; and for their future actual renovation, in God’s good time, if they live to years of
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