A47448:433
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
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6. Whilst he makes every believing Parent a like root to his posterity with Abraham to his Seed, he may as well say every believer is a common Father, to all that believe, as Abraham was—For both these Conclusions I infer from his notion.
1. Reader, Pray observe, that the Jews that believed not, were broken off from being any more the People of God, in any Covenant relation to him, and this was for their unbelief, and their Church State being gone by the Dispensation of the Gospel, and by the bringing in the Gospel Church.
2. That whosoever either Jews or Gentiles who are grafted into Christ the true Olive, and into the Gospel Church, must believe or be grafted in by Faith, i. e. by their own Faith and own consent, not by the Faith of their Parent be made Members of the Church under the Gospel; no, but must believe themselves as well as their Parents; 'tis not enough now to say we have Abraham to our Father, or that our Parents were believers and in Covenant, because the Church now does not consist of the ⟨p. 40⟩carnal Seed, but of the true Spiritual Seed only.