A47448:392
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.
Whereas we read that all his House believed as well as himself, and as soon too as we read of the Jailers own Faith; so that he may as well say, the Jailer did not believe himself, before he was Baptized, as so to affirm concerning his House. He says, Page 11. John Bapti•• Baptized all that came unto him; yet the Text clearly Implies, he rejected the Pharisees and Sadducees, bidding them to bring forth Fruits meet for repentance.
Whereas we read that all his House believed as well as himself, and as soon too as we read of the Jaylors own Faith; so that he may as well say, the Jaylor did not believe himself, before he was Baptized, as so to affirm concerning his House. He says, Page 11. John Bapti•• Baptized all that came unto him; yet the Text clearly Implies, he rejected the Pharisees and Sadducees, bidding them to bring forth Fruits meet for repentance.
He asserts in Page 33. that those little Children our Saviour saith, did believe on him, were little Infants, calling them Infant Believers▪
He vilifies Mr. Collins for leaving out in his quotations a word in one or two Texts of scripture, whereas he destroys not the Sense of the Texts by so doing, nor done to favour his own ••tion▪ as that in Isa. 44. 3. where his Seed, […] put for thy Seed▪ and that in Acts 2. 39. Nor doth he wrong his Antagonist in the least, and therefore no cause of complaint