A47448:406
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 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, Heb. 10. 9.
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 priviledges 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, Heb. 10. 9.
There is a First, and a Second, an Old and a New. Now the first is only taken away, as a Covenant of works, do this and thou shall live; and as it was given to the whole House of Israel, by virtue of which they held their Church-State, and Church-membership, and all their external Rites, Ordinances, and Privileges, for the Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change of the whole Law,