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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. In thy Seed, shall all the Nations of the Earth be Blessed, Gen. 12. 3. Gen. 18. 18. Gen. 22. 18. I cited the Apostles words, Gal. 3. 8. The Scripture foreseeing, that God would Justify the Heathen, through Faith Preached the Gospel to Abraham, saying, in thy Seed shall all the Nations of the Earth be Blessed.
3. In thy Seed, shall all the Nations of the Earth be Blessed, Gen. 12. 3. Gen. 18. 18. Gen. 22. 18. I cited the Apostles words, Gal. 3. 8. The Scripture foreseeing, that God would Justifie the Heathen, through Faith Preached the Gospel to Abraham, saying, in thy Seed shall all the Nations of the Earth be Blessed.
'Tis remarkable the Holy Ghost does not here refer to the Covenant of Circumcision, Gen 17. 7, 8, 9, 10. But to the free promise of the Covenant of Grace, which Paul says positively Abraham received not in Circumcision, Rom. 4. 9, 10. Faith was reckoned to Abraham for Righteousness; how was it then reckoned, when he was in Circumcision, or in Uncircumcision? not in Circumcision, but in Uncircumcision.