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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 Church of England acknowledge the same, viz. that Infants are not able to perform Faith and Repentance, the two great prerequisites of Baptism, by reason of their tender age, therefore they have found out sureties to engage for them.
The Church of England acknowledg the same, viz. that Infants are not able to perform Faith and Repentance, the two great prerequisits of Baptism, by reason of their tender age, therefore they have found out sureties to ingage for them.
In Page 57. you greatly abuse Mr. Collins, in saying that he allows not Elect dying Infants, to be in the Covenant of Grace. Doth it follow, because he denies the Infants of believers, as such, to be in the Covenant of grace, therefore he denies elect Infants to be in the Covenant of Grace? Sir, you ought, not to bear false witness against your neighbour, as you have done; he will tell you and hath told, you that all that are saved, are in the Covenant of Grace.
Reader, Pray note how disingenuous this Man seems to be, and how he hath strangely encumbered the present controversy, in talk▪ of habitual grace in dying; Infants for what is that to the purpose, since he refers not to such Infants of believers that live? he himself acknowledges that all their Infants who live have not the habit of Faith: Nor can he prove any of them have it, or such that die either; therefore unless no other but dying Infants were baptized by the Pedo Baptists, this can no ways concern the controversy.
Reader, Pray note how disengenuous this Man seems to be, and how he hath strangely encumbred the present controversie, in talk▪ of habitual grace in dying; Infants for what is that to the purpose, since he refers not to such Infants of believers that live? he himself acknowledges that all their Infants who live have not the habit of Faith: Nor can he prove any of them have it, or such that die either; therefore unless no other but dying Infants were baptized by the Pedo Baptists, this can no ways concern the controversie.