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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 3: Proving that Infants of Believers, as such, are not in the Covenant of Grace God made w…
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Shutes reply, I see that what the Gentleman told me is very true, and that those Leaves do begin about 74th. page and so on: And in the said 74th. page Mr. Shute begins with this easy assay, viz. To prove the Covenant of Grace God made with (or rather promised unto) Abraham, abideth for ever and ever, he urgeth that blessed Text Psalm 89. 34, 35, &c. My Covenant I will not break, nor alter the thing that in gone out of my Lips; once have I sworn by my my Holiness that I will not lye unto David, &c. Do we say or Imagine, that the promise of the Covenant of Grace God made to Abraham, is abrogated? God forbid: for that stands firm for ever and ever, as the Spring of all our comfort and consolation in Life and Death, being confirmed by the Oath of God, who cannot lie, Heb. 6. 13. 15, 16, 17, 18. and so doth the Invisible and Mystical Church, or Body of Christ, remain and abide for ever ⟨p. 24⟩also, against which the Cates of Hell shall never prevail.
Shutes reply, I see that what the Gentleman told me is very true, and that those Leaves do begin about 74th. page and so on: And in the said 74th. page Mr. Shute begins with this easie assay, viz. To prove the Covenant of Grace God made with (or rather promised unto) Abraham, abideth for ever and ever, he urgeth that blessed Text Psalm 89. 34, 35, &c. My Covenant I will not break, nor alter the thing that in gone out of my Lips; once have I sworn by my my Holiness that I will not lye unto David, &c. Do we say or Imagin, that the promise of the Covenant of Grace God made to Abraham, is abrogated? God forbid: for that stands firm for ever and ever, as the Spring of all our comfort and consolation in Life and Death, being confirmed by the Oath of God, who cannot lie, Heb. 6. 13. 15, 16, 17, 18. and so doth the Invisible and Mystical Church, or Body of Christ, remain and abide for ever ⟨p. 24⟩also, against which the Cates of Hell shall never prevail.