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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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2. I also grant that all those under the Law who were members of the invisible Church, or elect ones, were as choice a treasure to God as any Believers are now, and in the like safe condition.
3. 'Tis evident that the legal Church of the Jews was not made up of the same matter, or ingredients, as the Gospel Church is; for according to the Institution of the Gospel Church, none ought to be made members of it but Believers only. But in the Jewish Church the fleshy or carnal Seed were admitted by Gods ordination and appointment, God did allow of the fleshy Seed as such then to be members of that Church, but he doth not allow of such to be in the Gospel Church.
You mention, in Page 100. that in Exod. 25. 31. And thou shalt make a Candlestick of pure Gold, &c. and you hint this was the Church and the ordinances of God: And therefore the ingredients are the same under the Gospel as the Church was under the Law.
Answer, I Though the Candlestick of pure Gold had been a shadow or Figure of some thing to come, and that it referred not to the legal Church, but to the Church under the Gospel, and this being so, how can this prove that Church consisted of the same matter and ingredients as the Gospel Church does?