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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 4: Wherein Mr. Shutes arguments to prove our Churches no Churches, and our Baptism a count…
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1. IN page 186. he asserts, That Adult believers have nothing to do with the Ordinance after the first institution or Plantation of the Gospel in a Family, unless it be such, whose Parents deprived them of it in their Infancy: But Baptism of Right is devolved upon the Infant Seed of Believers.
1. Answer, If this be true, then the Children of unbelievers have no right to Baptism, neither as Infants nor when Adult believers, it the right be devolved upon the Infants of believers.—This in the first place is enough to convince him of his great error and mistake, […] he will not say that unbelievers Children have any right thereto in their Infancy. Tho' his evidence that Abraham's natural Seed, tho' ungodly persons, were required to Circumcise their Children, and their Children had the same right to it; for were none but godly Jews to circumcise their Male infants? Pray observe this.
1. Answer, If this be true, then the Children of unbelievers have no right to Baptism, neither as Infants nor when Adult believers, it the right be devolted upon the Infants of believers.—This in the first place is enough to convince him of his great error and mistake, 〈…〉 he will not say that unbelievers Children have any right thereto in their Infancy. Tho' his evidence that Abrahams natural Seed, tho' ungodly persons, were required to Circumcise their Children, and their Children had the same right to it; for were none but godly Jews to circumcise their Male infants? Pray observe this.
2. Besides, did not God expressly command Abraham as well to circumcise his Male Infants as himself; and so his offspring their Children after him in their generations? And now did our Saviour give such a Commission about Gospel Baptism, viz. that first those that believed should be Baptized, and then their Infants; or was there not the same purity of reason for Christs Commission about Baptism to have run thus, as there was for Gods Commission so to run to Abraham about circumcision? If what you say was true but we will come to his reasons to prove our Baptism a counterfeit, and our Churches no Churches of Christ.