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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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1. Now let any person see what blame this Man doth in Justice deserve for saying I have not mentioned the word everlasting in all my Book, viz. circumcision being called an everlasting Covenant; you also see, what little argument lies in that to prove the Covenant of circumcision is a Gospel Covenant or appertaining to the Covenant of Grace▪
Reader, in those Sermons I laid down eleven arguments, proving that the Covenant of Circumcision was part of the old legal and external Covenant God made with the Jews or the natural Seed of Abraham, so not belonging to the Gospel Covenant, and because thou mayest not meet with them, I shall give thee here the heads or sum of them as followeth, see Page 18. 1. Part.
Arg. 1. Because the Law or Covenant of circumcision was made, as to the design and end of it to separate the natural Seed of Abraham in their national Church state, from all other Nations, and to give them the Land of Canaan, so that they might not mixed themselves with the Heathen.
Arg. 1. Because the Law or Covenant of circumcision was made, as to the design and end of it to separate the natural Seed of Abraham in their national Church state, from all other Nations, and to give them the Land of Canaan, so that they might not mixt themselves with the Heathen.