A47448:396
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.
Now see this Mans exposition of these worth in Page 71. viz. That was to all the Elect Gentiles and their Children; for the promise runs in the same Channel, to the Gentiles and their Children in the Text, without any variation, as is •id to the Jews and their Children.
Answer. If he had said to the Elect Gentiles and to their Children or off-spring also, that are elected and called, then he had not wronged the Text; for the promise, that is, that of remission of S•n, and of the Holy Ghost, which runs first to the Jews that are called, and to their Children or Off-spring that are called, and so in like manner also unto the Gentiles that are called, and to their Off spring that shall be called, not to the Jews, and their Children as such, i. e. whether Effectually called or not; but to no more of the Jews, nor Gentiles themselves, nor their Children but even so many as the Lord our God shall call▪ Dr. Hammond confessed this Text is to little purpose brought to prove Infant Baptism:
Seeing by Children is meant off-spring, and refers not to Infants as such; It certainly intends no Children of Jews, or Gentiles, but such only who are elected, and called ones.