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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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In Page 12 (you say) you believe, that there were more modes in Baptism than one, for some went down into the Water, and others were Baptised in their Houses: but (say you) I understand not that any were Ducked all under Water; it is possible their Faces might be Dipped, without Plunging the whole Body under Water, or by pouring Water on their Faces.
1. Answer, That which you again assert. I again affirm, is not true, viz. That some were Baptised in their Houses; what you have said of the Jailers being Baptised in his own House, all may see is without Book, and without the least shadow of proof, nor do you, nor can you prove it of any other.
1. Answer, That which you again assert. I again affirm, is not true, viz. That some were Baptised in their Houses; what you have said of the Jaylors being Baptised in his own House, all may see is without Book, and without the least shadow of proof, nor do you, nor can you prove it of any other.
2. If there were more modes of Baptism than one, then there were different significations of the same ordinance, and all of them could not be held forth in the Baptism of each person; for such that were Dipped, tho' it was but the Head only, were taught the proper Mysteries represented thereby, and those that were sprinkled only with Water, or had Water poured upon them, were taught the proper Symbols or signification of that mode; but how absurd that would be I leave to all impartial wise Men to consider.
2. If there were more modes of Baptism than one, then there were different significations of the same ordinance, and all of them could not be held forth in the Baptism of each person; for such that were Dipped, tho' it was but the Head only, were taught the proper Mysteries represented thereby, and those that were sprinkled only with Water, or had Water poured upon them, were taught the proper Symbols or signification of that mode; but how absur'd that would be I leave to all impartial wise Men to consider.