A47448:483
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.
In Page 97. he distinguishes not on the Covenant made with Abraham, but positively asserts that off from that Covenant God made with Abraham, viz. The Covenant of Grace, some of the natural Branches were broken; yet in contradiction to this he shows, in Page 74. from Psa. 89. That the Covenant of Grace is firm and abideth for ever, and else where shows that there's no final falling from grace; all those therefore say I, that are in that Covenant cannot fail of Salvation; therefore those Branches never were in the Covenant of Grace.
In Page 97. he distinguishes not on the Covenant made with Abraham, but positively asserts that off from that Covenant God made with Abraham, viz. The Covenant of Grace, some of the natural Branches were broken; yet in contradiction to this he shews, in Page 74. from Psa. 89. That the Covenant of Grace is firm and abideth for ever, and else where shews that there's no final falling from grace; all those therefore say I, that are in that Covenant cannot fail of Salvation; therefore those Branches never were in the Covenant of Grace.
In Page 25. he says, God saves Elect dying Infants in no ways or means differing in any one point or part from that wherein he saves Adult believers. Yet in Page 65. he owns Infants cannot exercise grace in an ordinary way, and that nothing is required of them personally but passive Obedience. Is nothing required say I, of Adult believers but passive Obedience? If there is then the way or mode of Gods saving dying Infants differs in some part or point from the way or means of saving the Adult; and clear it is that more than passive obedience is required of Adult persons.
One while he says all Abraham's Seed are in the Covenant of Grace God made with him, and he denies final falling out of that Covenant, yet in Page 12. he says, one of Abraham's Sons or Seed is praying to him in Hell: And to be Abraham's Seed will not serve their turn.