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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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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 Rom. 9. 5, 6, 7, 8.
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 Abrahams 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 Rom. 9. 5, 6, 7, 8.
They are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither because they are the Seed of Abraham, are they all Children: But in Isaac shall thy Seed be called. That is, they which are the Children of the Flesh, these are not the Children of God: But the Children of the promise (Mark it) are accounted for the Seed. Is not that distinction Mr. Collins speaks of, clearly laid down in these Scripture? doth not the Apostle exclude the Carnal Seed of Abraham as such; from being included in the Covenant of Grace?
2. I need not go about to prove, there was a Covenant made with Abraham and all his natural Seed as such, since that is so clearly and fully spoken of in the Scripture; viz. That the whole House of Israel both Parents and Children, were taken into the legal Covenant and all were Members of the Jewish Church; read