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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.
He appeals to any experienced Christian among us, or of our party to judg whether there can be a more full Text of Scripture produced, to prove the continuation and Stability of the Covenant, &c.
If he will take my thoughts (who am 'tis like in his opinion as well as my own an unexperienced Christian) I must tell him he hath mistaken his Antagonist and the Text too: Cannot the Jewish Legal Church State go, but the Covenant of Grace must go, with them? God forbid.
The Apostle it is evident in this Chapter, Rom. 11. speaks of Gods Election, which ran first to Abraham's natural Seed, according to the Covenant of Grace, that is, to the Elect among the Jews, and so argues God had not cast away his People whom he foreknew; and from hence he shows that all that belong to the said Election of Grace shall be called, and in the Latter days be brought in, or grafted into their own true Olive tree, i. e. into Christ and into the Gospel Covenant and Church, for all (the true) Israel shall be saved, as it is written, &c. 'tis said they are Holy that is they are decretively and in Gods sight and intention Holy: I wonder at some Expositors who conclude, that it is an external relative Federal Holiness the Apostle speaks of here, which Holiness is not mentioned in all the New Testament, as an eminent▪ Writer observes.
The Apostle it is evident in this Chapter, Rom. 11. speaks of Gods Election, which ran first to Abrahams natural Seed, according to the Covenant of Grace, that is, to the Elect among the Jews, and so argues God had not cast away his People whom he foreknew; and from hence he shews that all that belong to the said Election of Grace shall be called, and in the Latter days be brought in, or grafted into their own true Olive tree, i. e. into Christ and into the Gospel Covenant and Church, for all (the true) Israel shall be saved, as it is written, &c. 'tis said they are Holy that is they are decretively and in Gods sight and intention Holy: I wonder at some Expositors who conclude, that it is an external relative Federal Holiness the Apostle speaks of here, which Holiness is not mentioned in all the New Testament, as an eminent Writer observes.