A47448:338
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…
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.
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.
2. Besides, did not God expresly 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.
In Page 186. first, because, saith he, they disown the Covenant God made with Abraham, in which the very foundation; for Baptism, was laid; let them find another foundation for it, if they can; for that Covenant is founded upon Christ himself, &c.
1. Answer, This in the first place is not that he charges us with, viz. that we disown […] Covenant God made with Abraham; for the Covenant of Grace, God promised to him […] contend for it as far forth as any can—But we do say the Covenant of circumcision is disannulled; that we do disown to be in force now.