A47448:404
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.
(Baptized) is left out to favour his design, I fear; for tho' faith be the same in every age, yet the the Ordinances are not the same, under the Gospel, as under the Law, for Baptism is no legal Ordinance, nor the Lords Supper, &c.
Also he has given a false exposition on several Verses, in Rom. 11. and hath in so doing abused Mr. Collins also; these are Mr. Collins words (as repeated by Mr. Shute) Page 75, 76. The natural Branches are broken off, ergo Children's visible incovenanting, is repealed; the Antecedent of this Enthymeme is clear from the Apostles assertion, Rom. 11. 19, 20, 21. by the natural Branches without controversy, is to be understood the natural Seed of Abraham
Also he has given a false exposition on several Verses, in Rom. 11. and hath in so doing abused Mr. Collins also; these are Mr. Collins words (as repeated by Mr. Shute) Page 75, 76. The natural Branches are broken off, ergo Childrens visible incovenanting, is repealed; the Antecedent of this Enthymem is clear from the Apostles assertion, Rom. 11. 19, 20, 21. by the natural Branches without controversie, is to be understood the natural Seed of Abraham
Now Mr. Shute leaves out Mr. Collins demonstration following, to prove his argument, i. e. by the branches saith he, without controversy, is to be understood the natural Seed of Abraham; and the breaking off, must either be meant, from visible Church-membership, and external privileges thereunto belonging; or the Everlasting Covenant of grace: It cannot, saith he, be the latter, because that Covenant is immutable, therefore it must be the former. Thus Mr. Collins: And he argues to the purpose, for 'tis impossible for any to be broken off from the Covenant of Grace, who were once in that; and 'tis as clear that the Jews or natural Seed of Abraham, as such, are broken off, from being any more a visible Church, and that the legal Covenant, for their incovenanting, i. e. both Parents and Children, as such, is gone and taken away; he took away the first that he might establish the Second,