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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, I am subject to think he was very young when he did first believe and was Baptised, may be he was a Child; but prove he was Baptised when he was an Infant and I will become a Pedo Baptist. And since his Mother and Grand-Mother were both believers, no doubt had he been Baptised when an Infant Christ would have left it upon Record, to have put an end to this controversy, which he knew and foresaw in after times would arise.
Answer, I am subject to think he was very young when he did first believe and was Baptised, may be he was a Child; but prove he was Baptised when he was an Infant and I will become a Pedo Baptist. And since his Mother and Grand-Mother were both believers, no doubt had he been Baptised when an Infant Christ would have left it upon Record, to have put an end to this controversie, which he knew and foresaw in after times would arise.
But this is no whereto be found, so that you are wiser then what is written.
2. But Sir, are your Infants Church Members with you; doth the Church you belong unto consists of such as of the Adult?