A47448:415
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 then to apply the Holiness and Infection here, to outward Dispensation only in the whole Church, which is meant of saving Grace in the invisible, and to make every believing Parent a like Root to his posterity with Abraham to his Seed, as some have done, and this Man seems to do; is a great abuse of the Sacred Text.
For this would be to set up another wall of separation or partition betwixt (believers and their seed, and unbelievers and their Seed,) as the Old one wa•, which is now broken down between Jews and Gentiles according to Eph. 2. 14, 15. as also a knowing of Men after the Flesh, i. e. after fleshly Descent, external Privileges, &c.
For this would be to set up another wall of separation or partition betwixt (believers and their seed, and unbelievers and their Seed,) as the Old one wa•, which is now broken down between Jews and Gentiles according to Eph. 2. 14, 15. as also a knowing of Men after the Flesh, i. e. after fleshly Descent, external Priviledges, &c.
2. The first Fruit spoken of we understand to refer to Isaac, Jacob, and the Holy Patriarchs, who were given to Abraham as the first Fruit of the Covenant of Grace God made with him, who were all Holy as Abraham, their Root was Holy, that is, Spiritually and Inherently Holy.
2. The first Fruit spoken of we understand to refer to Isaac, Jacob, and the Holy Partriachs, who were given to Abraham as the first Fruit of the Covenant of Grace God made with him, who were all Holy as Abraham, their Root was Holy, that is, Spiritually and Inherently Holy.