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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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When God renewed, saith he, the promise of it to Abraham, he is said to make a Covenant with him, and he did so; but it was with respect unto other things; especially the proceeding of the promised Seed from his Loins; but absolutely under the Old Testament, it consisted only in a promise. 1. It wanted its solemn confirmation and establishment, by the Blood of the only Sacrifice, which belonged to it. 2. This was wanting, saith he, the Spring, Rule, and Measure of all the Worship of the Church, this does belong to every Covenant, properly so called, that God makes with his Church, that it be the entire Rule of all the Worship, that God requires of it, which is that which they are to restipulate in their entrance into Covenant with God; but so the Covenant of Grace was not under the Old Testament; thus Dr. Owen.
When God renewed, saith he, the promise of it to Abraham, he is said to make a Covenant with him, and he did so; but it was with respect unto other things; especially the proceeding of the promised Seed from his Loyns; but absolutely under the Old Testament, it consisted only in a promise. 1. It wanted its solemn confirmation and establishment, by the Blood of the only Sacrifice, which belonged to it. 2. This was wanting, saith he, the Spring, Rule, and Measure of all the Worship of the Church, this does belong to every Covenant, properly so called, that God makes with his Church, that it be the entire Rule of all the Worship, that God requires of it, which is that which they are to restipulate in their entrance into Covenant with God; but so the Covenant of Grace was not under the Old Testament; thus Dr. Owen.
This is further confirmed by those expressions, Jer. 31. 31. I will make a new Covenant with the House of Israel, &c. clearly intimating he had not so made it before with any, except it was with Christ as our Head, Representative, and Mediator, with whom it was made for us, and in him with us, before the Foundation of the World, Tit. 1. 2.