A47448:643
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
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.
In Page 10. he says, How wilfully blind and dishonest are you thus falsely to quote my words. I can see no reason for those Unchristian expressions, in Page 11. he says I suppose he means a long White Shift, as if we Baptized Persons in a White Shift: What sport is here for the Enemies of Religion? Tho' I deny that Women were Baptized in that undecent immodest shameful way and manner, saith he.
In Page 10. he says, How wilfully blind and dishonest are you thus falsly to quote my words. I can see no reason for those Unchristian expressions, in Page 11. he says I suppose he means a long White Shift, as if we Baptized Persons in a White Shift: What sport is here for the Enemies of Religion? Tho' I deny that Women were Baptized in that undecent immodest shameful way and manner, saith he.
He means by Dipping the whole Body: God saith he, never appointed an ordinance to draw out and gratify Mens lusts, Page 11. O see what contempt he doth cast upon that way of Baptising, which all Christians used for many hundred of years in the Church, and which Christ appointed to the end of the World.
He means by Dipping the whole Body: God saith he, never appointed an ordinance to draw out and gratifie Mens lusts, Page 11. O see what contempt he doth cast upon that way of Baptising, which all Christians used for many hundred of years in the Church, and which Christ appointed to the end of the World.
You represent to the World, as if our way of Baptising were immodest, and done not as comely, or of good Report; for this you are to be accountable to the most high God. Friend, if you please to come and see our Order in the Administration of that Ordinance, I doubt not, but you will be convinced of your Error, and be forced to say, That the Subject goeth with more Sobriety and Modesty, to the Sacrament of Baptism, than thousands do to the hearing of Gods Word, or to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.