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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.
Now under the old Legal Covenant Infants were admitted Members of the Jewish Church, who did not know the Lord, but had need when grown up to understanding to be taught to know him; in this the old Covenant differs from the new; and old Church Membership from new Church Membership; for our Children before admitted into Gods Church, must know the Lord; we and they too must believe or be made Disciples by teaching; we must know Christ or fix our Faith on him, in saving knowledge which Infants cannot do.
Now under the old Legal Covenant Infants were admitted Members of the Jewish Church, who did not know the Lord, but had need when grown up to understanding to be taught to know him; in this the old Covenant differs from the new; and old Church Membership from new Church Membership; for our Children before admitted into Gods Church, must know the Lord; we and they too must believe or be made Disciples by teaching; we must know Christ or fix our Faith on him, in saving knowledg which Infants cannot do.
To the last of these arguments he seems to say some thing; see Page 119. where he cites these words out of my Sermons, Page 21. viz. in the old Covenant Infants were Members who did when taken into that Covenant and made members of that Legal Church, not know the Lord.
Mr. Shute says, here I mention but one Covenant, and acknowledge Infants were in that one Covenant: So that he hath confused himself, and let him or any of their opinion prove by Scripture God did •ast young Infants out of that one Covenant; he hath destroyed his two Covenants by thus contradicting himself; a Man under his circumstances had need to have a good Memory.
Mr. Shute says, here I mention but one Covenant, and acknowledg Infants were in that one Covenant: So that he hath confused himself, and let him or any of their opinion prove by Scripture God did ast young Infants out of that one Covenant; he hath destroyed his two Covenants by thus contradicting himself; a Man under his circumstances had need to have a good Memory.