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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
Appendix: AN APPENDIX; BEING A Reply to Mr. Shute's last single Sheet, in Answer to Mr. Collins's…
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Answer, You shall see Friend that there is such a distinction found in the Scripture, and that your reverend Ministers confirm the same thing, viz. That God made a Covenant with Abraham's natural Seed as such, which is removed; and also a Covenant with Abraham's Spiritual Seed as such, which runs to Christ, and all that are his elect ones (See Gal. 3. 16. Now to Abraham) and his Seed were the promises made. He saith not, and to Seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy Seed, which is Christ.
Answer, You shall see Friend that there is such a distinction found in the Scripture, and that your reverend Ministers confirm the same thing, viz. That God made a Covenant with Abrahams natural Seed as such, which is removed; and also a Covenant with Abrahams Spiritual Seed as such, which runs to Christ, and all that are his elect ones (See Gal. 3. 16. Now to Abraham) and his Seed were the promises made. He saith not, and to Seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy Seed, which is Christ.
Compared with verse 29. and if ye be Christs, then are ye Abraham's Seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Compared with verse 29. and if ye be Christs, then are ye Abrahams Seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Now Friend, if you say this promise which the Apostle speaks of, (which is the everlasting Covenant of Grace, God made with Abraham) was made with many, i. e. both with Abraham's natural and Spiritual Seed as such, you contradict the Holy Ghost. Paul says, And not to Seeds as of many, But you say to Seeds, i. e. all his natural and Spiritual Seed, Page 5. See also