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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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Now Mr. Shute says, page 125. That I have answered this Objection; as if there had been no Covenant of Grace before that time God did declare and make that Covenant with Abraham.
Answer, I will appeal to all Men, whether or no the very purport of my Answer is not to signify that the Covenant of Grace was from the beginning, made primarily with Christ before the World begun for us, and that those Infants that were saved before Abraham's time, were saved by the said Covenant of Grace, otherwise I had said nothing; the very Stress of my Argument lies upon that foot of account.
Answer, I will appeal to all Men, whether or no the very purport of my Answer is not to signifie that the Covenant of Grace was from the beginning, made primarly with Christ before the World begun for us, and that those Infants that were saved before Abraham's time, were saved by the said Covenant of Grace, otherwise I had said nothing; the very Stress of my Argument lyes upon that foot of account.
In page 132. Mr. Shute he says if God made two distinct Covenants with Abraham and his Seed, then.