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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…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. Does not David say God had made with him an everlasting Covenant, &c.
Answer, I answer, David was a Type of Christ, Psalm 89, 28, 34, 35. with whom the Covenant of Grace was made before the World began, this therefore refers to the true David, who was only able to answer the Condition agreed upon, between the Father and himself as Mediator, For the Covenant of Peace was between them both, Zech. 6. 13. For unto us the Covenant of Grace is not a Conditional, but an Absolute Covenant.
I will be their God, and they shall be my People, &c.
To Adam the promise runs The Seed of the Woman shall Bruise the Serpent's Head, &c.
To Adam the promise runs The Seed of the Woman shall Bruise the Sepents Head, &c.