A47448:479
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.
Answer, Now how impertinent is this? Where did Christ forbid Infants of Believers, the Lords Supper? and indeed they may have that as well as Baptism, and the first Fathers that established Infant Baptism, gave them the Lords Supper also:
2. Where is crossing in Baptism forbid, or Papists Salt Spittle, or Chrisom or other Popish rites? These in plain words are not forbid, are they therefore lawful? If Christ would have them to be Baptized, it would have been expressed in the affirmative; and is this horribly to impose our own uncouth notions as you affirm in the said 49. Page of your Book?
2. Where is crossing in Baptism forbid, or Popists Salt Spittle, or Crisom or other Popish rites? These in plain words are not forbid, are they therefore lawful? If Christ would have them to be Baptized, it would have been expressed in the affirmative; and is this horribly to impose our own uncouth notions as you affirm in the said 49. Page of your Book?
Where hath Christ forbid Baptizing of Turks, and Infidels, or the Children of unbelievers?
Where hath Christ forbid Baptizing of Turks, and Insidels, or the Children of unbelievers?