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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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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.
Answer, That Covenant which I mention was I tell you the Legal Covenant that God made with the whole Church and House of Israel, and how do I contradict my self? Infants I own were Members of the Jewish Church, and doth not the Scripture say, cast out the Bond woman and her Son, &c. is not the old Covenant the Jewish Covenant gone? did not God take away the first, that he might establish the second? what Covenant is that which the Apostle says, is took away and disannulled? 'tis not you, will say, the Covenant of Grace.
Answer, That Covenant which I mention was I tell you the Legal Covenant that God made with the whole Church and House of Israel, and how do I contradict my self? Infants I own were Members of the Jewish Church, and doth not the Scripture say, cast out the Bond woman and her Son, &c. is not the old Covenant the Jewish Covenant gone? did not God take away the first, that he might establish the second? what Covenant is that which the Apostle says, is took away and difanulled? 'tis not you, will say, the Covenant of Grace.