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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 1: Wherein it is proved, That Baptism is not Sprinkling nor Pouring of Water on the Face,…
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.
Friend, what do you mean by saying, All those metaphorical Baptisms are nearly related to the Ordinance of Baptism; if you intend both signifies Sprinkling, I deny it, for both of them signify Dipping or Overwhelming, and so doth the Baptism of Afflictions also, 'tis not every small degree of Suffering that is the Baptism of Suffering: Great Afflictions are so called, and that from the literal and genuine Signification of the Word Baptizo, to dip, to plunge under; and hence (as I have elsewhere showed) Vossius notes, That every light Affliction is not the Baptism of Affliction, but like that of David, Psal. 32. 6. He drew me out of deep Waters; hence also Sufferings and Afflictions are called Waves, Thy Waves and thy Billows are gone over me, Psal. 42. 7. it refers to Christ's Sufferings, who was overwhelmed with Afflictions, even unto Blood and Death. The same as I have hinted is to be noted as to the Baptism of the Spirit, it signifies the miraculous effusion of the holy Spirit, like that at the Day of Pentecost, Acts 2. 1, 2.
Friend, what do you mean by saying, All those metaphorical Baptisms are nearly related to the Ordinance of Baptism; if you intend both signifies Sprinkling, I deny it, for both of them signifie Dipping or Overwhelming, and so doth the Baptism of Afflictions also, 'tis not every small degree of Suffering that is the Baptism of Suffering: Great Afflictions are so called, and that from the literal and genuine Signification of the Word Baptizo, to dip, to plunge under; and hence (as I have elswhere shewed) Vossius notes, That every light Affliction is not the Baptism of Affliction, but like that of David, Psal. 32. 6. He drew me out of deep Waters; hence also Sufferings and Afflictions are called Waves, Thy Waves and thy Billows are gone over me, Psal. 42. 7. it refers to Christ's Sufferings, who was overwhelmed with Afflictions, even unto Blood and Death. The same as I have hinted is to be noted as to the Baptism of the Spirit, it signifies the miraculous effusion of the holy Spirit, like that at the Day of Pentecost,