A47448:407
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.
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, Heb. 7. 12.
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 vertue of which they held their Church-State, and Church-membership, and all their external Rites, Ordinances, and Priviledges, for the Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change of the whole Law, Heb. 7. 12.
Tho' it was for the Jews unbelief they were broken off, yet the dispensation being changed, it was impossible for them to keep their Church-State and external Legal Rites, and Privileges any longer; for 'tis evident that those Jews that believed in Christ, abode no longer members of their Old Church; but were transplanted into the Gospel Church; what can be more clear than this, viz. the Old House and Old legal Right of Church-membership is overturned and r•oted out for ever?
Tho' it was for the Jews unbelief they were broken off, yet the dispensation being changed, it was impossible for them to keep their Church-State and external Legal Rites, and Priviledges any longer; for 'tis evident that those Jews that believed in Christ, abode no longer members of their Old Church; but were transplanted into the Gospel Church; what can be more clear than this, viz. the Old House and Old legal Right of Church-membership is overturned and r•oted out for ever?