A47448:172
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. But Sprinkling is not Baptising; nor was that a real, but a Typical Baptism, i. e. when they passed through the Sea; nor was their Children any more Baptised, than was that mixed People which were with them; for so 'tis said and much Cattle also: But that Typical Baptism bears great Analogy with Dipping, as Mr. Pools Annotations well observes on the place. The Apostle useth that term in regard (say they) of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism (as it was used) the persons going down into the Waters and being Dipped in them, and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great receptacle of Water; tho' the Water at that time was gathered on heaps on either side of them, yet they seemed buried in the Water. This they give (from some) as the most probable sense of the place. And,
2. But Sprinkling is not Baptising; nor was that a real, but a Typical Baptism, i. e. when they passed through the Sea; nor was their Children any more Baptised, than was that mixt People which were with them; for so 'tis said and much Cattel also: But that Typical Baptism bears great Analogy with Dipping, as Mr. Pools Annotations well observes on the place. The Apostle useth that term in regard (say they) of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism (as it was used) the persons going down into the Waters and being Dipped in them, and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great receptacle of Water; tho' the Water at that time was gathered on heaps on either side of them, yet they seemed buried in the Water. This they give (from some) as the most probable sense of the place. And,
This being so you need not call the Anabaptists to wonder at, what you thought you had got here.
Do you think that among the Jews that passed through the Sea, there were not some Unbelievers as well as among that mixed People; will you plead for the Baptising of Profane and ungodly persons? for this will justify their being Baptised as far forth as that of the Infant Seed of Believers.