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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, 'Tis not unknown to our Opponents that the word everlasting, sometimes signifies no more than a long continuance of time; and so extensive was the promise of Gods peculiar favours to the natural Seed of Abraham; and the original of their claim therefrom, that the severity of that •aw afterwards given to them, was so far restrained as that notwithstanding their manifold breach of Covenant with God and forfeiture of all legal claims, of their right and privileges in the Land of Canaan thereby, that they were never cut off from that good Land and ceased to be peculiar People unto God, until the End or period of that time determined by the Almighty was fully come: Which was at the Revelation of the Messiah, and the setting up his Spiritual Temple under the Dispensation of the Gospel; and thus far the word everlasting doth extend. 'Tis said, God promised to give the Land of Canaan to Abraham and to his Seed for ever; and again, Gen. 17. 8. for an everlasting inheritance, whereas 'tis evident they have for many ages been dispossessed of it. Nor may this seem strange if we consult other Texts where the same Terms are used with the like Restriction, for the Priesthood of Levi is called an everlasting Priesthood, Numb. 25. 13. And so the Statutes to make an Atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, and for the Tabernacle and for the Altar, is called an everlasting Statute, Levit. 16. 34. Yet we know they all ended as did the Covenant of circumcision in Christ: See more in Page 14. Axe laid to the Root.
Answer, 'Tis not unknown to our Opponents that the word everlasting, sometimes signifies no more than a long continuance of time; and so extensive was the promise of Gods peculiar favours to the natural Seed of Abraham; and the original of their claim therefrom, that the severity of that •aw afterwards given to them, was so far restrained as that notwithstanding their manifold breach of Covenant with God and forfeture of all legal claims, of their right and priviledges in the Land of Canaan thereby, that they were never cut off from that good Land and ceased to be peculiar People unto God, until the End or period of that time determined by the Almighty was fully come: Which was at the Revelation of the Mssiah, and the setting up his Spiritual Temple under the Dispensation of the Gospel; and thus far the word everlasting doth extend. 'Tis said, God promised to give the Land of Canaan to Abrahhm and to his Seed for ever; and again,