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A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by…
A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by Mr. Giles Shute ... being an answer to his vindication of his pretended Antidote to prevent the prevalency of Anabaptism, showing that Mr. Hercules Collins's reply to the said author remains unanswered : wherein the baptism of believers is evinced to be God's ordinance, and the baptized congregations proved true churches of Jesus Christ : with a further detection of the error of pedo-baptism : to which is added, An answer to Mr. Shute's reply to Mr. Collins's half-sheet / by Benjamin Keach.A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by Mr. Gyles Shute ... being an answer to his vindication of his pretended Antidote to prevent the prevalency of Anabaptism, shewing that Mr. Hercules Collins's reply to the said author remains unanswered : wherein the baptism of believers is evinced to be God's ordinance, and the baptized congregations proved true churches of Jesus Christ : with a further detection of the error of pedo-baptism : to which is added, An answer to Mr. Shute's reply to Mr. Collins's half-sheet / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for H. Bernard, 1694
Chapter 2: Wherein Mr. Shutes Reply to Mr. Hercules Collins Answer about habitual Faith is conside…
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Answer, You go too fast; how do you prove that Baptism is an initiating Seal of the Covenant, some call it an initiating rite into the visible Church, but is it indeed an Ordinance of initiation into the Covenant of Grace; then your Infants are not in the Covenant before Baptized, I know nothing to be the Seal of the Covenant but the Holy Spirit, Eph. 1. 13, 14. and cap. 4. 30. as touching Circumcision, that was I grant a rite that belonged to the Male Infants of Abraham and his Seed, if it was initiating it, only let them into that National Church, but I doubt not but that the Seed of Abraham according to the Flesh, were all both Males & Females Born Members of that Church.
2. We shall prove by and by, that Circumcision did not appertain unto the Covenant of Grace; read the Arguments in the 1st and 2d. Part of the Axe laid to the Root of the Trees: And when you write again answer them, for you have not touched one of them; yet Sir you have a great deal of Work cut out all ready for you, before this comes to your Hand. But to proceed, you in page 26. go on to prove what you have asserted, viz.
2. We shall prove by and by, that Circumcision did not appertain unto the Covenant of Grace; read the Arguments in the 1st and 2d. Part of the Ax layd to the Root of the Trees: And when you write again answer them, for you have not touched one of them; yet Sir you have a great deal of Work cut out all ready for you, before this comes to your Hand. But to proceed, you in page 26. go on to prove what you have asserted, viz.
That it is so (say you) doth clearly appear from our Saviour Christs carriage and department towards those little Children that were brought to him.