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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
Chapter 1: Wherein it is proved, That Baptism is not Sprinkling nor Pouring of Water on the Face,…
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3. What though we do not read that the Jailer had a River, or Pond, in his Yard, or near his House ('tis ridiculous to talk of a River or Pond in his House) yet we ought to believe there was Water enough by, or near his House, to Baptize him and all his, who believed. You see it is granted by your own worthy Brethren, Baptizing is Dipping; there was n• need for the Holy Ghost to speak of the place where this Water was, or whether it was a Pond or River: And certainly they did not Baptize some, and sprinkle or •antize others; Gospel-Baptism being but one and the same, as to the subject and mode of Administration.
3. What though we do not read that the Jaylor had a River, or Pond, in his Yard, or near his House ('tis rediculous to talk of a River or Pond in his House) yet we ought to believe there was Water enough by, or near his House, to Baptize him and all his, who believed. You see it is granted by your own worthy Brethren, Baptizing is Dipping; there was n• need for the Holy Ghost to speak of the place where this Water was, or whether it was a Pond or River: And certainly they did not Baptize some, and sprinkle or •antize others; Gospel-Baptism being but one and the same, as to the subject and mode of Administration.
4. How can you say Page 7. that they were all Baptized in his own House, when the Text speaks not any such thing?
2. How can you presume to assert, that they did not go out of the House? Reader observe the Text well, Acts 16. 30. And brought them out and said, Sirs what must I do to be saved?