A47448:490
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 167. he inquires whether a Farmer destroys his Barn or hurts the Floor, when he takes a great keap of Corn and Chaff and Winnows the Corn, and Fans away the Chaff, &c.
Answer, I ask whether or no Christ did not remove by the Gospel Dispensation, all the Wheat out of the old Barn, nay, and pull down that Barn, viz. the Jewish Church, and Fan quit away the Carnal Seed as such, and all the Chaff: And erect a new Garner or Gospel Church, into which he put his Wheat, i. e. Believing Men and Women, whether Jews or Gentiles.
In Page 136. he intimates that the essential part of circumcision is Baptism, and that the essential part thereof remaineth in the Flesh still.
Answer, Then say I, circumcision could not be circumcision without Baptism, nor Baptism be Baptism without circumcision, which is such a piece of Stuff and Impertinences as I never met with all; can a thing be where the Essence or the Essential Part of it is wanting?