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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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For the Covenant God made with Abraham speaks nothing of Baptism. And had not our Blessed Saviour given it forth as an institution ⟨p. 29⟩of the Gospel, we had never heard of it nor known it had been a duty or ordinance, should we have read the Covenant made with Abraham a thousand times over: Therefore if all they say about the Infant Seed of Believers as such should be granted, being in the Covenant of Grace that God made with Abraham, (which cannot) yet it would not follow from thence, Infants ought to be Baptized for, none ought to be Baptized but such that Christ's Commission and positive command, doth authorize so to be, which are none but those who by preaching, and the working of the Holy Ghost are made Disciples, or do believe; and make a confession of their Faith; in matters of mere positively right. We must always keep to the direct will and words of the Lawgiver like as Abraham did in circumcision: No adding nor altering no pleading for Females to be circumcised, if Males only are expressed in the institution of it.
For the Covenant God made with Abraham speaks nothing of Baptism. And had not our Blessed Saviour given it forth as an instistution ⟨p. 29⟩of the Gospel, we had never heard of it nor known it had been a duty or ordinance, should we have read the Covenant made with Abraham a thousand times over: Therefore if all they say about the Infant Seed of Believers as such should be granted, being in the Covenant of Grace that God made with Abraham, (which cannot) yet it would not follow from thence, Infants ought to be Baptized for, none ought to be Baptized but such that Christ's Commission and positive command, doth authorize so to be, which are none but those who by preaching, and the working of the Holy Ghost are made Disciples, or do believe; and make a confession of their Faith; in maters of mere positively right. We must always keep to the direct will and words of the Lawgiver like as Abraham did in circumcision: No adding nor altering no pleading for Females to be circumcised, if Males only are expressed in the institution of it.