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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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Ye must say I reckon from Christ, not from Abraham; but Mr. Shute misrepresents me here also, as if I set Abraham before Christ, when 'tis evident I intimated no other thing than this, i. e. you must see your selves first in Christ before you can reckon your selves to be Abraham's Seed: Again, I cited Page 17. part, 1. that in Rom. 9. 7, 8. Neither because ▪they are the Seed of Abraham are they all Children, but in Isaac shall thy Seed be called, 7. That is, they which are the Children of the Flesh, these are not the Children of God. But the Children of the promise are counted for the Seed.
Ye must say I reckon from Christ, not from Abraham; but Mr. Shute misrepresents me here also, as if I set Abraham before Christ, when 'tis evident I intimated no other thing than this, i. e. you must see your selves first in Christ before you can reckon your selves to be Abrahams Seed: Again, I cited Page 17. part, 1. that in Rom. 9. 7, 8. Neither because ▪they are the Seed of Abraham are they all Children, but in Isaac shall thy Seed be called, 7. That is, they which are the Children of the Flesh, these are not the Children of God. But the Children of the promise are counted for the Seed.
What can be more clear than this, viz. that the natural Seed of Abraham, as such (called here the Children of the Flesh) are not his Spiritual Seed to whom the Covenant of Grace doth belong unto, that is (saith the Apostle) They which are the Children of the Flesh, these are not he Children of God, that is, as such, or as simply so considered: For some of the natural Seed of Abraham, tho' not all, were the Children of the promise; for saith he, they are not all Israel that are of Israel, vers. 6.