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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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2. Doth any Gospel ordinance assure us and our Children of the Land of Canaan, or any worldly and earthly Blessings, or is not the new Covenant established upon better promises?
Arg. 2. Because some who were not in the Covenant of promise, had a positive right to, and where commanded of God to be circumcised, as Ishmael, Esau, &c. and all the Male-Children, tho' wicked Mens Children that sprung from Isaac in their generations, &c. also some of Abraham's Spiritual Seed were not to be circumcised, nor had they any right there too.
Arg. 2. Because some who were not in the Covenant of promise, had a positive right to, and where commanded of God to be circumcised, as Ishmael, Esau, &c. and all the Male-Children, tho' wicked Mens Children that sprung from Isaac in their generations, &c. also some of Abrahams Spiritual Seed were not to be circumcised, nor had they any right there too.
1. As all his Male-Children who died before eight days old.
2. All his Females, who were elected persons and some others, who lived in Abraham's Days, as Melchizedek and Lot, &c.