A47448:603
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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3. It might be called their Olive Tree or Covenant, because the Covenant of Grace as it was made with Abraham, ran first to his natural Seed who were the Children of the promise, i. e. the Elect of God; hence Christ said he was not sent but to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel: That is, not first sent, they were first to have the offer of all New Covenant Grace and Blessings; to them appertained the Covenant and Adoption, &c. viz. in the first place.
4. Do we plead for the dissolution of the Covenant of Grace, God made with or promised to Abraham, because we say the Legal ⟨p. 51⟩and external Covenant made with him and his Carnal Seed, as such is removed, by virtue of which they had their political Church State, and visible Church-membership and all other Fleshly and Legal Privileges?
4. Do we plead for the dissolution of the Covenant of Grace, God made with or promised to Abraham, because we say the Legal ⟨p. 51⟩and external Covenant made with him and his Carnal Seed, as such is removed, by vertue of which they had their political Church State, and visible Church-membership and all other Fleshly and Legal Priviledges?
Or do we say, those Jews that believed or their Elect Infants were cast out of the Covenant of Grace? God forbid.