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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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Read my 14. Arguments in the precedent Answer, to prove the Covenant of circumcision was not the Covenant of Grace.
2. Was God the God of all Abraham's Carnal Seed as such; by way of special interest? if so, they shall no doubt be all Eternally saved; as well as all the Children or Carnal Seed of Believers: Which you will not admit of.
2. Was God the God of all Abrahams Carnal Seed as such; by way of special interest? if so, they shall no doubt be all Eternally saved; as well as all the Children or Carnal Seed of Believers: Which you will not admit of.
Therefore consider that God may be said to be the God of a People, two manner of ways.
1. By the free promise or Covenant of Grace, in a Spiritual Sense: Or by Divine Union with him, through faith and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit; 'tis this gives special interest in God to all Adult Persons, and thus he was not the God of all Abraham's Carnal Seed, no, but of a few of them only comparatively, for tho' the number of the Children of Israel be as the Sands of the Sea, yet but a Remnant shall be saved.