. But it is pure water, therefore
res agens
.
Ib.
p. 192.
For it is certain and evident, that regeneration or new birth is here enjoined to all as of absolute and indispensable necessity.
Yet Taylor himself has denied it over and over again in his tracts on Original Sin; and how is it in harmony with the words of Christ —
Of such are the kingdom of heaven
? Are we not regenerated back to a state of spiritual infancy? Yet for such Anti-pædobaptists as hold the dogma of original guilt it is doubtless a fair argument; but Taylor ought not to have used it as certain and evident in itself, and not merely
ad hominem et per accidens