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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 1: Wherein it is proved, That Baptism is not Sprinkling nor Pouring of Water on the Face,…
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Answer 1. You might have added many other Places of Scripture, where we read of Sprinkling: But what would it signify? the Sprinkling and Pouring mentioned in these Scriptures, refer not to Water▪ Baptism: Read your learned Annotators and Expositors, and you will find they agree as one Man▪ That Sprinkling and Pouring of Water (in Isaiah and Ezekiel, &c.) do refer to the graci us Effusion of the Spirit in the Times of the Gospel, and to the Purifying and Purging Virtue of the Blood of Christ; and so that in Heb. 12 24. is to be understood, you should not only say, but prove Baptism to be here intended, and then you had said something.
Answer 1. You might have added many other Places of Scripture, where we read of Sprinkling: But what would it signify? the Sprinkling and Pouring mentioned in these Scriptures, refer not to Water▪ Baptism: Read your learned Annotators and Expositors, and you will find they agree as one Man▪ That Sprinkling and Pouring of Water (in Isaiah and Ezekiel, &c.) do refer to the graci us Effusion of the Spirit in the Times of the Gospel, and to the Purifying and Purging Vertue of the Blood of Christ; and so that in Heb. 12 24. is to be understood, you should not only say, but prove Baptism to be here intended, and then yoù had said something.
2. Should the Sprinkling or Pouring in these Scriptures, be meant of Baptism, then it would follow that Baptism has mighty Virtue in it indeed, even to wash away all Sin and Filthiness: I thought nothing could cleanse from Sin out Christ's precious blood, as it is applied by the Spirit, through Faith. Baptism, Peter tells you, washes not away the Filthiness of the Flesh. Not the putting away of the Filthiness of the Flesh, but the answer of a good Conscience towards God, by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ,