A47448:531
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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2. God is the God of a People, upon the account of external calling and profession; and thus, saith he, the posterity of▪ Seth, are so called; and the entire nation of the Jews &c.
2. God is the God of a People, upon the account of external calling and profession; and thus, saith he, the posterity of▪ Seth, are so called; and the intire nation of the Jews &c.
Friend, This I desire you to weigh well, for God was not by way of special interest, in a Spiritual Sense the God of Abraham's Carnal Seed as such: Therefore it was this external Covenant, no doubt that Mr. Cotton intends when he says the Ministry of John the Baptist did burn as an Oven, and left the Jews neither the Root of Abraham's Covenant, nor the Branches of their own good works, Co• ton on the Covenant Page 21, 22 Friend, you speak as if your Ministers had […] those notions of yours into you, about the Covenant God made with Abraham; I am satisfied you abuse your Ministers; I am sure Dr. Owen taught you no such Doctrine, as I have already showed; and I shall here again faithfully cite two or three passages more of that Reverend Minister of Christ: See his Exposition on the 8th Chapter to the Hebrews, Page 219, &c.
Friend, This I desire you to weigh well, for God was not by way of special interest, in a Spiritual Sense the God of Abrahams Carnal Seed as such: Therefore it was this external Covenent, no doubt that Mr. Cotton intends when he says the Ministry of John the Baptist did burn as an Oven, and left the Jews neither the Root of Abrahams Covenant, nor the Branches of their own good works, Co• ton on the Covenant Page 21, 22 Friend, you speak as if your Ministers had 〈…〉 those notions of yours into you, about the Covenant God made with Abraham; I am satisfied you abuse your Ministers; I am sure Dr. Owen taught you no such Doctrin, as I have already shewed; and I shall here again faithfully cite two or three passages more of that Reverend Minister of Christ: See his Exposition on the 8th Chapter to the Hebrews, Page 219, &c.