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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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1. Answer, Is not the Jewish Church State dissolved, and doth not Dr. Owen tell you their Old Covenant is gone? Yet,
2. Do we say, the promise of the New Covenant God made to Abraham is dissolved? God forbid, for that is unalterable, and by the Virtue of which it is that believing Gentiles partake of the Blessings of Abraham.
2. Do we say, the promise of the New Covenant God made to Abraham is dissolved? God forbid, for that is unalterable, and by the Vertue of which it is that believing Gentiles partake of the Blessings of Abraham.
But Friend, the Gentiles receive not the Blessings of Abraham through the Law, nor through the Covenant of Circumcision, but by Faith in the Promise of the Covenant of Grace made with Abraham, viz. in thy Seed shall all the Families of the Earth be Blessed. Nay Abraham himself, 'tis evident, received not that blessedness in the Covenant of circumcision, That Faith was reckoned to Abraham for Righteousness, The Apostle asserts Rom. 4. 9. How was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. Verse 10. There was no need of this distinction, if circumcision appertained to the Covenant of Grace; we see how 'tis contra-distinguished to the Covenant of Faith: