Now there is no peradventure, but new-converted persons, heathens newly giving up their names to Christ and being baptized, if they die in an hour, and were baptized half an hour after they believe in Christ, are heirs of salvation.
This granted, I should little doubt of confuting all the foregoing, as far as I object to it. I would rather be
durus pater infantum
, like Austin, than
durus pater ægrotantium
. Taylor considers all Christians who are so called.
Ib.
s. lxvi. p. 481.
All this paragraph is as just as it is fine and lively, but far from confirming Taylor's doctrine. The case is as between one individual and a general rule. I know God's mercy and Christ's merits; but whether your heart has true faith in them, I cannot know.
Be it unto thee according to thy faith