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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
Chapter 1: Wherein it is proved, That Baptism is not Sprinkling nor Pouring of Water on the Face,…
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1. Answer, We do read in vers. 34. And when he had brought them into his House he set Meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his House.
1. Answer, We do read in vers. 34. And when he had brought them into his House he set Meat before them, and rejoyced, believing in God with all his House.
2. He will say, may be, this was after they were Baptized. I answer, we read not one word of the Jailers believing himself tell then: I mean tho' he believed before, and all his House believed before either were Baptized; yet 'tis not expressed by the Holy Ghost until after they had been Baptized, and were come into his House, and he set Meat before them believing in God with all his House; So that here is as much mention made of that act of Faith his whole House exerted, as of the Jailers own Faith, and as soon also.
2. He will say, may be, this was after they were Baptized. I answer, we read not one word of the Jaylors believing himself tell then: I mean tho' he believed before, and all his House believed before either were Baptized; yet 'tis not expressed by the Holy Ghost until after they had been Baptized, and were come into his House, and he set Meat before them believing in God with all his House; So that here is as much mention made of that act of Faith his whole House exerted, as of the Jaylors own Faith, and as soon also.
3. And is it not evident likewise that they were before out of the Jailers House, else why is it said when he had brought them into his House, &c. that is, after they were Baptised; take heed how you write at another time, lest you provoke God by adding and diminishing from his Sacred Word.
3. And is it not evident likewise that they were before out of the Jaylors House, else why is it said when he had brought them into his House, &c. that is, after they were Baptised; take heed how you write at another time, lest you provoke God by adding and diminishing from his Sacred Word.