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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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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, 1 Pet. 3. 20.
2. Should the Sprinkling or Pouring in these Scriptures, be meant of Baptism, then it would follow that Baptism has mighty Vertue 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 applyed 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, 1 Pet. 3. 20.
3. If you should say, Baptism is chiefly a Sign or lively Symbol of our being sprinkled with the Spirit, or with the Blood of Jesus Christ, we do deny it. You have not attempted to prove it, 'tis evident Baptism is principally a Sign or Symbol of Christ's Death, ⟨p. 5⟩Burial and Resurrection, see Rom. 6. 3, 4. Col. 2. 12, 13. compared with this in 1 Pet. 3. 20. which Sprinkling or Pouring cannot hold forth.