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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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In Page 34. You positively affirm, this is the Church of which a• the Seed of Believers, are Members as much now as ever the Jews, Children were under the Law. For it is the same Church state, tho' in another dress or under another dispensation. Our Saviour did not destroy the Church state when he ••communicated the unbelieving Jews &c.
1. Answer, I thought that the Church you are a Member of was congregational, not national, and I am satisfied that it is so, and that they do own no national Church to be a true Church of Christ, I mean such that consisteth of Parents; and their Children as under the Law in the national Church of the Jews.
2. I deny that all or any Infants of believers are Members of the Gospel Church▪; prove it if you can; and also I do affirm the State or Constitution of the Gospel Church, is not the same now as it was under the Law: 'Tis evident all the Jewish Infants were born Members of that Church; it being national.