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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…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
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 Abrahams 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.
2. God may be said to be the God of a People, by entering into an external, outward or legal Covenant with them; and thus he was the God of Abraham, and of all his Carnal Seed or Off-spring, or whole House of Israel: Under the Old Covenant, or Dispensation of the Law: God made them as a Nation, a peculiar People unto himself, and was said to be married to them.
2. God may be said to be the God of a People, by entring into an external, outward or legal Covenant with them; and thus he was the God of Abraham, and of all his Carnal Seed or Off-spring, or whole House of Israel: Under the Old Covenant, or Dispensation of the Law: God made them as a Nation, a peculiar People unto himself, and was said to be married to them.
See Dr. Bates one of your own Ministers in his Sermon preached at Mr. Baxters Funeral.