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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.
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.
To Abraham, In thy Seed shall all the Families of the Earth be blessed. In both places it contained only a gracious promise: To Abraham, and to his Seed the promise was made; it is not said Covenant, therefore when I say God made a Twofold Covenant with Abraham, I mean that there were two Covenants contained in those Covenant Transactings of God with him, one a Formal Covenant with him and his Carnal Seed, which contained a Covenant upon mutual restipulation, which was the Covenant of Circumcision, which Abraham and his Carnal Seed subscribed to the other a free promise or Covenant of Grace to him and all is true Spiritual Seed, which is confirmed by Christs Blood, and which believers consent to, and enter into, when Baptized upon the profession of their Faith, in Gospel days, tho' I deny not, but that they have actual interest in it; as soon as they have Union with Christ, or do believe in him.