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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…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
You proceed to make these things to appear.
1. You begin with the Attributes of the Church under the Law. viz. if you obey my voice indeed and keep my Covenant, then •e shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all People &c. and ye shall be unto me a Kingdom of Priests, and […] holy Nation, Exod. 19. 5, 6. You quote also, Psal. 135. 4.
1. You begin with the Attributes of the Church under the Law. viz. if you obey my voice indeed and keep my Covenant, then •e shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all People &c. and ye shall be unto me a Kingdom of Priests, and 〈…〉 holy Nation, Exod. 19. 5, 6. You quote also, Psal. 135. 4.
1. Answer, Tho' they upon their obedience and keeping Gods Covenant had such promises, yet 'tis evident that they were a National Church: God took the whole House of Israel into a visible External Covenant Church State, and as so considered separated them from all other Nations and People in the World, to be a peculiar people and Treasure (in that Covenant) unto himself; and in this sense, he was said federally, or by Covenant to be Married to the whole House of Israel, and became an Husband, to them; see Jer. 31. 31