A47448:412
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.
• the Root is doubtless meant Abraham; but then know that Abraham was a twofold […] as well as a twofold Father, viz the Root of all his natural Seed, and the Root or Father of all his true Spiritual; now for a Man to say that the Apostle here refers to Abraham as a natural Root, and so to his natural or Carnal Seed as such, is to destroy the whole scope and drift of the Holy Ghost in this Chapter; in the close of the 10 Chapter the Apostle shows the Jews were rejected, and the Gentiles called; and in the beginning of this […]. Chapter he prevents an objection; some might be ready to say if this be so, then God hath cast away his Covenant People. To this he Answers, vers. 2. God hath not cast away his People whom he for knew that is, his Elect or the Spiritual Seed of Abraham that were among the Jews, See vers. 5. even so then o• this present time there is a Remnant according to the Election of Grace: Again, in vers. 7 what then Israel had not obtained, &c. (that is the natural seed as such,) but the Election hath obtained it, and the rest were blended; and tho' the main Body of the Jews were rejected for their unbelief, yet in the Latter Days God will call all those and bring them in, who belong to the Election of Grace, and so all Israel, (that is the Spiritual Israel) shall be saved, See vers. 15. and •6.
• the Root is doubtless meant Abraham; but then know that Abraham was a twofold 〈…〉 as well as a twofold Father, viz the Root of all his natural Seed, and the Root or Father of all his true Spiritual; now for a Man to say that the Apostle here refers to Abraham as a natural Root, and so to his natural or Carnal Seed as such, is to destroy the whole scope and drift of the Holy Ghost in this Chapter; in the close of the 10 Chapter the Apostle shews the Jews were rejected, and the Gentiles called; and in the beginning of this 〈…〉. Chapter he prevents an objection; some might be ready to say if this be so, then God hath cast away his Covenant People. To this he Answers, vers. 2. God hath not cast away his People whom he for knew that is, his Elect or the Spiritual Seed of Abraham that were among the Jews, See vers. 5. even so then o• this present time there is a Remnant according to the Election of Grace: Again, in vers. 7 what then Israel had not obtained, &c. (that is the natural seed as such,) but the Election hath obtained it, and the rest were blended; and tho' the main Body of the Jews were rejected for their unbelief, yet in the Latter Days God will call all those and bring them in, who belong to the Election of Grace, and so all Israel, (that is the Spiritual Israel) shall be saved, See vers. 15. and 6.