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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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3. Let it be considered that there was a National Covenant of Peculiarity also, made with Abraham's Carnal Seed, as such in which Circumcision, the Land of Canaan, the giving sorib of the Law on Mount Sinai, their Visible Church, and Church-membership, and all the Statures, Ordinances, and Services of the Law did appertain, and this brings me to what Mr. Shute hath said by way of answer to my Sermon on Ma•h. 3. Now is the Axe laid to the Root of the Trees. Where I do not only assert, but prove that two Covenants were continued in Gods Transactions with Abraham; but first observe, Reader, his abuses and misconstructions of my words, as in page 115. as if I had left out on purpose the 7. verse in Gen. 17. where the Covenant of Circumcision is called, an everlasting Covenant. 'Tis evident I did not only mention that verse, but answered Mr. Flavel's Argument drawn there from, as in part 2. page 13. But still he affirms positively again that in all my Discourse, I have not so much as named this, viz. an Everlasting Covenant, and so compares me with the Devil, who left out part ⟨p. 25⟩of a Scripture; see his Book page 116. Now this being a matter of Fact, let such who are in Communion with him consider it, for if they read my Sermons, page 13, 14. they will see that 'tis a great untruth. What tho' I left it out at such times when the writing it was not to my purpose in Hand, seeing I mention it at another, and answer what our opponents draw there from? In page 117. he says, If there were two Covenants made with Abraham, then there would have been three Covenants in being at once, two of Works, and one of Grace.
3. Let it be consider'd that there was a National Covenant of Peculiarity also, made with Abrahams Carnal Seed, as such in which Circumcision, the Land of Canaan, the giving sorib of the Law on Mount Sinai, their Visible Church, and Church-membership, and all the Statures, Ordinances, and Services of the Law did appertain, and this brings me to what Mr. Shute hath said by way of answer to my Sermon on Ma•h. 3. Now is the Ax laid to the Root of the Trees. Where I do not only assert, but prove that two Covenants were continued in Gods Transactions with Abraham; but first observe, Reader, his abuses and misconstructions of my words, as in page 115. as if I had left out on purpose the 7. verse in