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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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Observe the Doctor speaks not of Adams Covenant, but of that Covenant God gave to the whole House of Israel, or natural Seed of Abraham.
He further shows that the Covenant of Grace, until Christ came, was only contained in promise, by which Covenant, all that lived under the Old Testament who had Faith in it were saved, to Abraham and his Seed was the promise made, Gal. 3. 16. That was the Covenant of Grace, therefore say we, the Covenant of circumcision, and Sinai Covenant where there was mutual stipulation betwixt God and the whole House of Israel, could not be the Covenant of Grace; besides, 'tis said that that Covenant they broke, and by so doing, lost all the external blessings of it, as the Prophet Zach. Chap. 11. 10, 14. shows, because of the Jews unbelief, and putting the Messiah to Death, God broke his Covenant with that People.
He further shews that the Covenant of Grace, untill Christ came, was only contained in promise, by which Covenant, all that lived under the Old Testament who had Faith in it were saved, to Abraham and his Seed was the promise made, Gal. 3. 16. That was the Covenant of Grace, therefore say we, the Covenant of circumcision, and Sinai Covenant where there was mutual stipulation betwixt God and the whole House of Israel, could not be the Covenant of Grace; besides, 'tis said that that Covenant they broke, and by so doing, lost all the external blessings of it, as the Prophet Zach. Chap. 11. 10, 14. shws, because of the Jews unbelief, and putting the Messiah to Death, God broke his Covenant with that People.
Zech. 11. 10. And I took my Staff, even beauty, and cut it asunder: That I might break my Covenant which I made with all the People. What is become now of your everlasting Covenant, God made with all the People of Israel or natural Seed of Abraham? Is it not gone, are his Carnal Seed as such still in Covenant with God, or are they not with their external legal Covenant cast out? Sir the everlasting Covenant of Grace, that stands firm 'tis true, that is confirmed by the Oath of God, and Blood of Christ; but the Covenant in which was contained circumcision, and all the Legal Rites and Jewish Church, and Church-membership is gone and taken away.