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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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4. And lastly, you say their Baptism cannot be good, because their Principle is to Baptise Adult Believers, but not their Seed; which is to Baptise, but part of the believer; whereas they should Baptise, not only a part of him, but all of him: So that their Baptism is but a counterfeit Baptism.
Answer, Is this to show your great wisdom? But are our Children a part of our selves and are we not believers without our Children? How if our Children should prove unbelievers, then I fear we shall not go for complete believers, but one part of us is a believer, and the other part of us an unbeliever; also then if your Child should perish, but a part of you would be saved; is it fit such stuff should be Printed? Do not mistake your self, you are one complete Man, and your Son another, and you are no less complete a Man if you have no Child at all: So it you are a believer you are a complete believer and want no part, and if your Child is an unbeliever: yet you are not less a complete believer.
Answer, Is this to shew your great wisdom? But are our Children a part of our selves and are we not believers without our Children? How if our Children should prove unbelievers, then I fear we shall not go for compleat believers, but one part of us is a believer, and the other part of us an unbeliever; also then if your Child should perish, but a part of you would be saved; is it fit such stuff should be Printed? Do not mistake your self, you are one compleat Man, and your Son another, and you are no less compleat a Man if you have no Child at all: So it you are a believer you are a compleat believer and want no part, and if your Child is an unbeliever: yet you are not less a compleat believer.
But you that Sprinkle only the Face, I am sure you do not Baptise the whole person of a Child, nor any part of it, nor of the Adult neither: What shall I call your Baptism.—