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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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Answer, You do but beg the question. We 'tis true, do Baptise the Adult Seed of some Believers, but we deny they were Baptized in their Infancy, they were but Rantized; but had they been in their Infancy Baptized, i, e. Dipped, yet not having the prerequisites of Baptism, viz. Faith and Repentance, they were not the true subjects of that Gospel ordinance. But Friend, do we do well to Baptise the off-spring of unbelievers, since by your argument they in their Infancy could not have true right to it, it being entailed on Believers Seed only? is that Branch of our Baptism a counterfeit also?
Answer, You do but beg the question. We 'tis true, do Baptise the Adult Seed of some Believers, but we deny they were Baptized in their Infancy, they were but Rantized; but had they been in their Infancy Baptized, i, e. Dipped, yet not having the prerequisites of Baptism, viz. Faith and Repentance, they were not the true subjects of that Gospel ordinance. But Friend, do we do well to Baptise the off-spring of unbelievers, since by your argument they in their Infancy could not have true right to it, it being intayled on Believers Seed only? is that Branch of our Baptism a counterfeit also?
3. You say their Baptism cannot be good, because they deny it to their own Seed and off-spring; when as the Covenant is made to Believers and their Seed: So that either they are no believers themselves, or else they Reprobate their own Children.
1. Answer, Our Baptism may be good in your own opinion, I suppose, if our parents were unbelievers—But Friend, whose authority renders any Ordinance good? If we act according to the authority of Christ in Baptism, is not our Baptism good? We deny Baptism to our Children, because all are required to believe, repent, &c. before Baptized, Mat. 28. 19, 20