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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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Arg. 8. That Law or Covenant that is contra-distinguished or opposed to the Covenant of Faith, or Gospel Covenant could not be one and the same in nature and quality with it.
But the Apostle lays down the Covenant of circumcision, as contra-distinct or opposed to Faith or the Covenant of Grace, ergo.
9. That Covenant or precept that could profit none unless they keep the whole Law perfectly, it could not appertain to the Covenant of Grace, but so 'tis said of circumcision, S•e Rom. 2, 25.
10. That Law or Covenant that obliged those that conformed to it, to keep the whole Law, could not belong to the Covenant of Grace, but so did circumcision oblige, See Gal. 5. 3. See our last Annotators on that Text.