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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…
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.
Neither need your Wives eat the Lords Supper, for when you receive, they receive it. But sure, Sir, you mistake; your learning fails you: Will the food you eat feed your Wife? or will your Faith serve her? Doth she believe when you believe, because she is part of you, as here you intimate?
In page 12. 7. he reflects on me for saying, God may have many ways to save dying Infants, which we know not: He can apply the Benefits and Merits of Christ's Blood to them in ways we are wholly ignorant of, &c. For this I Quoted Dr. Taylor Bishop of Down.
Take his answer, viz. Pray take notice this Man contradicts himself▪ for in page 21. (he saith) They must believe and repent, and bring forth good Fruits, &c. Yet here, •e saith, God hath many ways to save dying Infants: And in page 30. for this Mr. Shute says, There is no saving of any Person, Old or Young, without the Grace of Faith. Th•, you see there is (saith he) but one way to eternal Life.
1. Answer, I cannot see but that you have by your arguing, thus excluded all Infants that dye, out of the Kingdom of Heaven; for if no Infant can be saved, unless they Believe, Repent, and bring forth good Fruits as the Adult must, if they are saved, how is it possible any Infant can be saved?