A47448:509
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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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 Gen. 17. 9, 10, 12, Dent. 29. 9, 10, 11. 12, 13. But that legal Covenant we affirm is abrogated and taken away: If it were not so, what is it which our Apostle speaks in Heb. 10. 9. He took away the first, that he might establish the Second. Compared with Heb. 8. 7, 8, 13.
Sure none can once Imagine that this Covenant was the Covenant of Grace: Also what doth the Apostle mean when he says, cast out the Bond Woman and her Son, Gal. 4. 30. Doth he not tell us by the Bondwoman is meant the Old Covenant given to the whole House of Israel, or the lineal Seed of Abraham; not the Covenant given to all Mankind in the first Adam; and doth he not tell us by the Son of the Bondwoman is meant the fleshly Seed of Abraham as such? Who were all taken into Covenant with God under the Old Testament: And yet is there no Covenant that peculiarly was made with Abraham's natural Seed, as such.