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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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The first is, saith he, the Root of Abraham's Covenant, which this People much trusted upon, and that is that which John Baptist speaks of is the Axe laid to the Root of the Trees, think not to say with in your selves, we have Abraham to our Father, vers. 8. So that all their confidence they had in Abraham's Covenant, Temple, and Tabernacle, and such things, is burnt up, and so they have no Root left them to stand upon. But 2ly. The Lord he saith hath cut us off from the righteousness of our Parents and from boasting of his Ordinances.
The first is, saith he, the Root of Abrahams Convenant, which this People much trusted upon, and that is that which John Baptist speaks of is the Ax laid to the Root of the Trees, think not to say with in your selves, we have Abraham to our Father, vers. 8. So that all their confidence they had in Abrahams Covenant, Temple, and Tabernacle, and such things, is burnt up, and so they have no Root left them to stand upon. But 2ly. The Lord he saith hath cut us off from the righteousness of our Parents and from boasting of his Ordinances.
Again, he saith, it is spoken of the Ministry of John Baptist, which did burn as an Oven, and left them neither the Root of Abraham's Covenant, nor the Branches of their own good works; he cutteth them off from the Covenant of Abraham and so by cutting them off from the root, he leaveth them no ground to trust to, Page 21, 22. you say the new creature in the Womb, or in the Cradle, is as perfect and complete in all its lineaments as in the oldest Saint on Earth, Page 40. &c.
Again, he saith, it is spoken of the Ministry of John Baptist, which did burn as an Oven, and left them neither the Root of Abrahams Covenant, nor the Branches of their own good works; he cutteth them off from the Covenant of Abraham and so by cutting them off from the root, he leaveth them no ground to trust to, Page 21, 22. you say the new creature in the Womb, or in the Cradle, is as perfect and compleat in all its lineaments as in the oldest Saint on Earth, Page 40. &c.