A47448:417
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.
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.
3. By the Lump may be meant the whole Body of the Elect or Spiritual Seed of Abraham, who lived from the time the first Fruit was given him until the Gospel Days, who were all Holy as the Root also.
By Lump cannot be intended the whole Nation of the Jews, as Mr. Shute positively affirms, in Page 82. for it so, what consistency can there be in the Apostles words and Argument? The Apostle speaks of the Elect Israel, not of the fleshly and Carnal Israel; take this Mans words the first Fruit the Jews, &c. the Lump or whole Nation of them; and here is the same Root, on which the Gentiles are grassed, Page 82. He confounds the first Fruit and Lump together, and says by it is meant the whole Nation of the Jews. What Text can be wronged worse? We grant 'tis the same Root that all Gentile believers partake of the fatness of which the godly Jews partook of under the Law, viz. the Blessings of the Covenant of Grace made with the Root Abraham; but what is this to our Carnal Seed as such?
By Lump cannot be intended the whole Nation of the Jews, as Mr. Shute positively affirms, in Page 82. for it so, what consistency can there be in the Apostles words and Argument? The Apostle speaks of the Elect Israel, not of the fleshly and Carnal Israel; take this Mans words the first Fruit the Jews, &c. the Lump or whole Nation of them; and here is the same Root, on which the Gentiles are grassed, Page 82. He confounds the first Fruit and Lump together, and says by it is meant the whole Nation of the Jews. What Text can be wronged worse? We grant 'tis the same Root that all Gentile believers partake of the fatness of which the godly Jews pertook of under the Law, viz. the Blessings of the Covenant of Grace made with the Root Abraham; but what is this to our Carnal Seed as such?