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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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But instead of answering you ask this question, viz. where do you find any command for the Infant Seed of believers, to stay till they are Adult, to be Baptized?
1. Answer, Where did God expressly forbid Abraham to circumcise his Male Infants, on the 7th or 9th day, or not to circumcise Female Infants?
1. Answer, Where did God expresly forbid Abraham to circumcise his Male Infants, on the 7th or 9th day, or not to circumcise Female Infants?
2. There needs no Negative Law where there is a Law in the affirmative; if on the 8th day, it follows not on the 7th or 9th; if Males only are expressed, not Females; so if believers, if such who are taught and made Disciples by teaching, are commanded to be Baptized, then all must stay till they do believe, and are taught and made Disciples, before Baptized.
3. Was not the Gospel, think you, planted in Joseph and Mary's House, and yet the Holy Child Jesus stayed till he was about 30 years old, before Baptized. Also Gregory Nazianzen in his 4th Oration, saith Dr. Duveil, gives an instance of those who died without Baptism by reason of Infancy.