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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
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.
4. By the Branches who are said to be Holy also, certainly is to be understood those Elect ones of Israel who were living in the Apostles Days, as vers. 5. even so then at this time also there is a Remnant according to the Election of Grace.
Now observe the Apostle speaks, in vers. 17. of some Branches that were broken off, and of the Gentiles who were like a Wild Olive Tree, being grassed in; these Branches that were broken off, were the unbelieving Jews, who at that time comprehended the whole ⟨p. 39⟩national Church of Israel; for all that believed that were Jews, were transplanted into the Gospel Church, these Branches that were broken off sprang from the same Root as Abraham, was their Father according to the Flesh and Legal Covenant, and for a time seemed true Branches, they were of Israel, though not Israel, Rom. 9. 6. they were the Children of the Flesh, but not the Children of the promise, they were in the external Covenant, but being not in the Covenant of Grace, by Faith, and the Old Covenant being now gone and taken away, they were cut off and no more looked upon as Branches in any sense.
Now observe the Apostle speaks, in vers. 17. of some Branches that were broken off, and of the Gentiles who were like a Wild Olive Tree, being grassed in; these Branches that were broken off, were the unbelieving Jews, who at that time comprehended the whole ⟨p. 39⟩national Church of Israel; for all that believed that were Jews, were transplanted into the Gospel Church, these Branches that were broken off sprang from the same Root as Abraham, was their Father according to the Flesh and Legal Covenant, and for a time seemed true Branches, they were of Israel, though not Israel, Rom. 9. 6. they were the Children of the Flesh, but not the Children of the promise, they were in the external Covenant, but being not in the Covenant of Grace, by Faith, and the Old Covenant being now gone and taken away, they were cut off and no more lookt upon as Branches in any sense.