A47448:16
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
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.
I wish he knew his own Spirit and Weakness better, and not thus to admire what he hath done: Doth he think there is none can answer his Arguments? No ⟨p. 3⟩saving our Baptism and Churches from sinking to the bottom, which he hath so furiously attacked? sad Case! What could Goliath of Gath, or proud Rabshaketh say more?
I wish he knew his own Spirit and Weakness better, and not thus to admire what he hath done: Doth he think there is none can answer his Arguments? No ⟨p. 3⟩saving our Baptism and Churches from sinking to the bottom, which he hath so furiously attacked? sad Case! What could Goliah of Gath, or proud Rabshaketh say more?
But he forgot the old Proverb, Let not him boast that puts on his Armour as he that puts it off.
If I or my Reverend Brother Collins, have in any Writings of Ours used hard Words, we have cause to be troubled, for the Truth never gained any thing that way: 'Tis not hard Words, but hard Arguments that must do the Business; A soft Answer (as Solomon saith) turneth away Wrath.