A47448:409
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.
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 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 Priviledges, with those •ews that did abide firm in the Covenant, &c.
1. Answer, This Man doth not distinguish one Covenant from another, i. e. the Legal from the Gospel Covenant; nay he owns but one so that he ass•rts the unbelieving Jews, were broken off of the Covenant of Grace, and their Children too; by which he seems to plead for Arminianism or final falling o of the Covenant of Grace: Nay worse, i. e. that the