A47448:551
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. 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?
2. It is evident in the Covenant of circumcision, there was a restipulation at their entrance into that Covenant with God, so that that was a formal Covenant, but the Covenant of Grace, he tells us was no formal Covenant; but only a free promise under the old Testament.
Therefore there was two Covenants held forth in Gods Transactions with Abraham.
First a formal Covenant made with him and all his Fleshly Seed, of which circumcision was a Sign at their entrance into it, which they thereby subscribed unto.