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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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Here you make a great stir telling us that Christ speaks of Old Disciples and of Young Disciples, Page. 33. Here is the Young Disciple (be) 2 the Old Disciples (them) 3 Christ takes his Observation from the believing Young Disciple, &c.
Answer, I utterly deny that Child, or those little Children, who are positively said to be believe in Christ, to be Infants.
1. For 'tis expressly said, Christ called that Child to him he was able to come, no doubt whom Christ called: Could an Infant do that?
1. For 'tis expresly said, Christ called that Child to him he was able to come, no doubt whom Christ called: Could an Infant do that?
2. To put the matter out of doubt, 'tis evident as to matter of fact, God hath in our days wrought by his Spirit, savingly on several little Children, some three or four years old, others about six or seven, as Mr. Jenaway in his token for little Children shows and names the Children: Now it might be such a little Child Christ called to him, and who did believe in him, and 'tis such little Children he speaks of that do believe in him, who are able to believe; but what is this to prove Infants o believe and are able to believe. If this be so, you need not plead only for the habit of Faith to be in them, for now you think you have proved they have Faith it self, for believing refers not only to the habit, but to the act also.