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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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Answer, What few he means that are excepted, I know not; but if all the Spiritual Seed of Abraham had right to all the external benefits and privileges of the external Covenant God made with him, then all believing Gentiles and their Elect Infants have, or had a right to circumcision, the giving of the Law, the possession of the Land of Canaan, and all other rites of the Mosaical Law.
Answer, What few he means that are excepted, I know not; but if all the Spiritual Seed of Abraham had right to all the external benefits and priviledges of the external Covenant God made with him, then all believing Gentiles and their Elect Infants have, or had a right to circumcision, the giving of the Law, the possession of the Land of Canaan, and all other rites of the Mosaical Law.
2. If by the everlasting Covenant he means the Covenant of Grace, then all Abraham's natural Seed, as such, a few excepted, have or had a right to Baptism, the Lords Supper and all Gospel Church-privileges; and if so, why were the Sadducees and Pharisees, and Multitudes more of Abraham's natural Seed refused and not admitted to the external benefits and privileges of the Gospel or Covenant of Grace?
2. If by the everlasting Covenant he means the Covenant of Grace, then all Abrahams natural Seed, as such, a few excepted, have or had a right to Baptism, the Lords Supper and all Gospel Churche-priviledges; and if so, why were the Saddu•ees and Pharisees, and Multitudes more of Abrahams natural Seed refused and not admitted to the external benefits and priviledges of the Gospel or Covenant of Grace?
Think not to say, saith John Baptist, within your selves, ye have Abraham to your Father, when they came to be Baptized; he proceeds to prove several things that none denies: A that the Covenant of Works was made with Adam and all mankind in him, and that there is but two Covenants; that all the elect under the Law were in the Covenant of Grace, &c.