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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
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.
Arguments to prove that those Churches who are gathered by Faith and Repentance, and upon the profession of Faith are Baptized (which are called Anabaptists) are true Churches of Christ▪ which Mr. Shute den•es so to be.
1. Argument All those Churches who are right in matter and form are true Churches.
1. ARgument All those Churches who are rightin matter and form are true Churches.
But those Churches, falsely called Anabaptists, are right in matter and form ergo they are true Churches.
But those Churches, falsly called Anabaptists, are right in matter and form •rgo they are true Churches.
The matter of true Churches are godly person, or true believers; the true form is the order or […] of the Gospel Church, viz. The Adult upon the profession of Faith and Repentance, Baptized; and so with joint consent give themselves up to the Lord, and one to another, to walk in fellowship and communion in all the Ordinances of the Gospel.