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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
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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, at the Bible in the Poultry. M DC XC IV.
THE INTRODUCTION.
I Cannot, without Grief and Sorrow of Heart, reflect upon the sad Consequences of our present Differences in and about the smaller Matters of Religion, whereas we agree in all the Essentials thereof; but do much more resent that bitter and censorious Spirit many show, and particularly appeareth in the Person I have now to do with, which all that read his Books will quickly perceive. Pray do but see what a kind of Advertisement he put twice into the City Mercury of his last Treatise, &c. wherein he positively denies those he calls Anabaptists to be Churches; and their Baptism he affirms to be a Counterfeit, which is the Baptism of Believers or adult Persons; and that because we do not ground Gospel-baptism upon the Covenant God made with Abraham, but upon the great Commission our blessed Saviour gave to his Disciples after he rose from the Dead, as it is contained,