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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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3. And if this was so, how then was the way and ordinance of God in their Holy administration, one and the same in all the Churches of the Saints? you may as well say the modes of the Administration of the Lords Supper were more than one, and so allow of the Popish mode therein, who deny the Laity the Cup. Is this to make the Holy God, a God of order, or of confusion?
3. And if this was so, how then was the way and ordinance of God in their Holy administration, one and the same in all the Churches of the Saints? you may as well say the modes of the Administration of the Lords Supper were more than one, and so allow of the Popish mode therein, who deny the Lai•y the Cup. Is this to make the Holy God, a God of order, or of confusion?
4. If Dipping was one mode and Sprinkling another, then would Baptism and Rantism be both ordinances of Christ, ask the learned what the word for (Sprinkling) is in the Greek Tongue, and if they do not tell you (if they speak the truth) 'tis (Rantising) I will confess I have in this done you wrong, and mistook my self: But we deny Sprinkling is Baptism for Dipping of the whole Body; is an essential, not an accident of Baptism. Baptism is compared to a burial, that's clear from Rom. 6. 3, 4. as it is confessed by a multitude of learned Men who were Pedo Baptists, as you shall hear anon. Now will you say, if the Face or Head only of a Dead Corps was covered with Earth, and not the whole Body, that the Corps was buried? if you should, would you not be laughed at? Our Saviour was buried, not his Head only, but his whole Body also in the Heart of the Earth, and he whose whole Body is not covered all over in the Earth, is not buried; no more is he whose whole Body is not covered all over in the Water-Baptised. Baptism is a lively Figure of the Burial of our Blessed Lord, and of our Death to Sin and being Buried with him both in Sign and signification.
4. If Dipping was one mode and Sprinkling another, then would Baptism and Rantism be both ordinances of Christ, ask the learned what the word for (Sprinkling) is in the Greek Tongue, and if they do not tell you (if they speak the truth) 'tis (Rantising) I will confess I have in this done you wrong, and mistook my self: But we deny Sprinkling is Baptism for Dipping of the whole Body; is an essential, not an accident of Baptism. Baptism is compared to a burial, that's clear from