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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,…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. But you intimate, That these Spiritual Metaphorical Baptisms are nearly related to the Ordinance of Baptism.
I answer, by pouring Floods of Water, or by the great Effusion of the Spirit; I deny not but the Baptism of the Spirit may be held forth; and the Baptism of the Spirit signifies Immersion. Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, &c. Acts 1. 5. The Greek Word [Greek or Hebrew] says Casaubon, Is to Dip or Plunge, in which Sense, saith he, the Apostles might be said to have been Baptized, for the House in which this was done, was filled with the Holy Ghost, so that the Apostles might seem to have been plunged into it, as in a large fi•h-pond. See Dr. Duveil on Acts 1. 4, 5.
I answer, by pouring Floods of Water, or by the great Effusion of the Spirit; I deny not but the Baptism of the Spirit may be held forth; and the Baptism of the Spirit signifies Immersion. Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, &c. Acts 1. 5. The Greek Word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 says Casaubon, Is to Dip or Plunge, in which Sense, saith he, the Apostles might be said to have been Baptized, for the House in which this was done, was filled with the Holy Ghost, so that the Apostles might seem to have been plunged into it, as in a large fi•h-pond. See Dr. Duveil on Acts 1. 4, 5.
The learned Casaubon was a Pedo-baptist, yet knew better than to assert Baptizo is to Sprinkle or Pour, but to Dip or Plunge, as you here.