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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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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. God there made a promise to Israel and Judah, viz. I will make a new Covenant, &c. not according to the Covenant I made with y ur Fathers in the day that I took them by the Hand, to bring them out of the Land of Egypt, which Covenant they broke, although I was an Husband to them, saith the Lord, v. 32. Now in that Covenant God made with them when he brought them out of the Land of Egypt, he gave them their Legal Church State and many External Earthly Blessings, Laws and carnal Ordinances; and like as a Husband cares and provides for the Wife, so did God care and provide for them and preserve them so long as that Law (I mean the Law of their Husband) did continue: But that Law is now dead, Rom. 7.4. And God is now no longer such a Husband to them: Nor hath he Married any other External Nation or People (as so considered) in the World: But now God in the Gospel Covenant is an Husband indeed to them he was a Typical Husband; nor is the Gospel Church Married to the Lord by that old▪ Covenant Law, but by the new Covenant, which is not according to the old: Moreover, they not keeping that Covenant were not such a peculiar treasure to the Lord, as Believers are to him in the New Covenant: Christ hath undertook for all the true members of his mystical Body, they are married to him for ever and they are to him an Eternal excellency, therefore the legal Jewish visible Church differed from the Gospel Church—Yet
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