A47448:408
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.
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?
And say I, if the Covenant for incoveannting of the fleshly Seed, as such, is abolished, and no new Law is given forth for the bringing in again professing Parents and their Carnal Seed, as such, what is it this Man contends for, yet what a mighty stir he makes about that in Rom. 11. you may See in Page 76, &c. This Man makes it his main business to prove that the Covenant of Grace is not taken away, which we assert with as much Zeal as he; but see how he abuses the Text, Rom. 11. 17. viz. as those Jews which were these Branches were broken off, and their Children with them were cast out of the Covenant: So the Gentiles, and all their Children were taken into Covenant, in their room, and did partake of the same Privileges, with those •ews that did abide firm in the Covenant, &c.
And say I, if the Covenant for incoveannting of the fleshly Seed, as such, is abolished, and no new Law is given forth for the bringing in again professing Parents and their Carnal Seed, as such, what is it this Man contends for, yet what a mighty stir he makes about that in