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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…
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.
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.
2. All his Females, who were elected persons and some others, who lived in Abrahams Days, as Melchisedeck and Lot, &c.
Arg. 3. Because some of Abraham's natural Seed to whom circumcision did belong, were nevertheless denied Gospel Baptism; tho' their plea was Abraham is our Father.
Arg. 3. Because some of Abrahams natural Seed to whom circumcision did belong, were nevertheless denied Gospel Baptism; tho' their plea was Abraham is our Father.
1. From hence it follows, circumcision was no Gospel Law; for that which gave right to circumcision was not sufficient to give right to Gospel Baptism.