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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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2. This was wanting, (saith he) it was not the Spring, rule and measure of all the worship of the Church i e. this doth belong unto every Covenant, properly so called, that God makes with the Church; that is the entire rule of all the worship that God requires of it, which is that they are to restipluate in their entrance into Covenant with God; but so the Covenant of Grace was not under the Old Testament, for God did require of the Church many duties of worship, that did not belong thereunto; but now under the New Testament this Covenant, with its own Seals and appointments is the only rule and measure of all acceptable worship, wherefore the new Covenant promised in the Scripture and here opposed unto the old, is not the promise of Grace, Mercy, and Life, and Salvation by Christ, absolutely considered, but as it had the formal nature of a Covenant given unto it in its establishment by the Death of Christ, &c. Page 227.
2. This was wanting, (saith he) it was not the Spring, rule and measure of all the worship of the Church i e. this doth belong unto every Covenant, properly so called, that God makes with the Church; that is the intire rule of all the worship that God requires of it, which is that they are to restipluate in their entrance into Covenant with God; but so the Covenant of Grace was not under the Old Testament, for God did require of the Church many duties of worship, that did not belong thereunto; but now under the New Testament this Covenant, with its own Seals and appointments is the only rule and measure of all acceptable worship, wherefore the new Covenant promised in the Scripture and here opposed unto the old, is not the promise of Grace, Mercy, and Life, and Salvation by Christ, absolutely considered, but as it had the formal nature of a Covenant given unto it in its establishment by the Death of Christ, &c. Page 227.
1. Now pray observe, does not the Doctor clearly hint thereby, that no Rite, Sign, or Seal properly of the Old Testament can be a Rite Sign or Seal properly of the New Covenant, how then could circumcision be the Seal of the said Covenant of Grace?