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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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To conclude with this, take three or four Arguments.
Arg. 1. That which cannot be proved of this nature from the word of God, nothing being directly or indirectly spoken about it, is absurd and vain for any person to assert.
Arg. 1. That which cannot be proved of this nature from the word of God, nothing being directly or indirectly spoken about it, is absur•d and vain for any person to assert.
But it cannot be proved from the word of God that one Infant of Believers or any other, have habitual Faith; there being nothing directly or indirectly spoken about it, ergo 'tis absurd and vain for any person to assert that any Infant of Believer hath habitual Faith.
Arg. 2. 'Tis forbid, and a sinful thing for any to p•y into Gods secrets: All they that pry into the way how God applies the merits of Christ to dying Infants, and sanctifieth them, do pry into God, Secrets, ergo 'tis forbid and a sinful thing to pry into that, &c.