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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 1: Wherein it is proved, That Baptism is not Sprinkling nor Pouring of Water on the Face,…
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1. Answer, Sir, you should take more heed to your words and to what you assert. Is it said they were baptized in the Jailers House? if it […] been done in a House, our Saviour needed not to have gone to the River Jordan to be Baptized; much less into Jordan. Nor was there any reason for Philip and the E•••ch to have gone into the Water.
1. Answer, Sir, you should take more heed to your words and to what you assert. Is it said they were baptized in the Jaylors House? if it 〈…〉 been done in a House, our Saviour needed not to have gone to the River Jordan to be Baptized; much less into Jordan. Nor was there any reason for Philip and the E•••ch to have gone into the Water.
2. Moreover, doth not the Holy Scripture tell you that John also was Baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water, John 3. 23. Pray Reader note this well; mind the reason why the Holy Ghost •aith, he Baptized in Aenon; 'tis positively affirmed, because there was much Water in that place, intimating clearly that a little Water will not serve to Baptize Persons in: Also observe what Mr. Pools Annotations say on this place of Scripture; thus you will find it expressed, viz. It is from this apparent, that both Christ and John Baptized by Dipping the Body in Water, else they need not have sought places where had been great plenty of Water. These are his words that wrote those Annotations. And if it be so apparent, 'tis as apparent you have been too bold to say, that Dipping is more like a punishment of Criminals than an ordinance of God.
2. Moreover, doth not the Holy Scripture tell you that John also was Baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water, John 3. 23. Pray Reader note this well; mind the reason why the Holy Ghost aith, he Baptized in Aenon; 'tis positively affirmed, because there was much Water in that place, intimating clearly that a little Water will not serve to Baptize Persons in: Also observe what Mr. Pools Annotations say on this place of Scripture; thus you will find it expressed, viz. It is from this apparent, that both Christ and John Baptized by Dipping the Body in Water, else they need not have sought places where had been great plenty of Water. These are his words that wrote those Annotations. And if it be so apparent, 'tis as apparent you have been too bold to say, that Dipping is more like a punishment of Criminals than an ordinance of God.