A47448:422
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.
They were Branches in the Old Testament Church, but there is a new will made, a new and last Testament confirmed, and ratify by the Death of the Testator Jesus Christ, and the fleshly Seed as such have no such legacy, left them as in the Old Testament, viz. to be Members of the New Testament Church, that running to none but to such who believe, &c. but they not believing, or for their unbelief were cut or broken off.
They were Branches in the Old Testament Church, but there is a new will made, a new and last Testament confirmed, and ratifie by the Death of the Testatour Jesus Christ, and the fleshly Seed as such have no such legacy, left them as in the Old Testament, viz. to be Members of the New Testament Church, that running to none but to such who believe, &c. but they not believing, or for their unbelief were cut or broken off.
1. Not broken off the Covenant of Grace, as Mr. Shute intimates, because they never were in that Covenant.
2. Not broken off Gods Election, for to that they did not belong: But,
3ly. They were broken off and their Children as such (or as so considered) so that they are no more a visible Church of God, nor a People in any Covenant relation to him.