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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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Sir, why did you not answer these arguments? you have said nothing, that is worth regard to me. Also show if you writ again what profit your Infants receive by Baptism, and in what sense they are in the Covenant of Grace, and how they can be Members of your Churches, and yet are not Members nor received as such, until they actually believe and repent,—But remember if you could prove them in the Covenant of Grace, yet that doth not prove you ought to Baptise them: Baptism is of mere positive right: You must have authority from Christ to Baptise them, or you sin if you do it.
Sir, why did you not answer these arguments? you have said nothing, that is worth regard to me. Also shew if you writ again what profit your Infants receive by Baptism, and in what sense they are in the Covenant of Grace, and how they can be Members of your Churches, and yet are not Members nor received as such, until they actually believe and repent,—But remember if you could prove them in the Covenant of Grace, yet that doth not prove you ought to Baptise them: Baptism is of mere positive right: You must have authority from Christ to Baptise them, or you sin if you do it.
In Page 136. You tell us, That the form of circumcision was transient, and is ceased—Yet the Essential part thereof remaineth in the Flesh, for nothing could be more a Type of Baptism than Circumcision, &c.
Answer, I promised to forbear hard words; but a Man that argues thus should be severely dealt with one way or another, i. e. either by writing, or rather in a Church way be severely reproved. Does the Essential part of circumcision remain in the Flesh, then the mark it made in the Flesh doth no doubt remain, for I know not what was else the essential part of it remaining in the Flesh save that, the form was the cutting off the fore-skin.