Nigel Lee's "Baby Belief Before Baptism"

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Lee speaks of a rebuttable presumption of regeneration from the womb. Is it typical for those who hold to presumptive regeneration to maintain that it is a rebuttable presumption?
 
Tyler - I think Lee is using the term in his own way believing it to be concise. Burgess doesn't use that term. He says, though, quoting Thomas Hooker, says, "“That all elect infants, do, ordinarily, in baptism, receive the Spirit of Christ, to seize upon them for Christ, and to be in them as the root and first principle of regeneration, and future newness of life." (Vid. Hooker, lib.5 sect. 60). But he will also say, ". I take this word [regeneration] to be of all sense, which life, according to the Scriptures, I distinguish into initial and actual." So Burgess is more concise, but still leaves the door open for later apostasy." So he qualifies more precisely than Lee does. Burgess' work is quite thorough.
 
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