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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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I also ask you whether the Jewish Church that was founded upon that Old Covenant, is not gone and dissolved? if so what doth your arguing prove, nor is there a new Gospel national Church like the Church of the Jews instituted in the room of the old? since you plead for Infants Church-membership, you must come to the new and last Will and Testament, if Christ hath not willed Infants, their right to Baptism, and Church-membership in the Gospel, they can't have it by the former Testament which is disannulled.
Tou ask if faith and repentance was not required under the Law, Page 119.
I answer, Not to make any Members of the Jewish Church, you are in Page 120. 121. &c. upon your old argument, that both young and old, Infants and the Adult are saved by faith: We have answered that already. Such that can believe, that Infants do believe or know the Lord, let them, I believe it not, nor can he nor all the Men of the World prove it. I shall repeat the substance of my other arguments, to prove that circumcision did not appertain to the Covenant of Grace.
Arg. 5. Because the Terms of it runs according to the Sinai Covenant, which is said not to be of Faith. But the Man that doth these things shall live in them,