A47448:645
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.
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.
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 forc'd 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.
In Page 12. Therefore, saith he, there is no more work for the Club nor the Axe; you may lay them by as useless, or hang them up in Merchant Tailors Hall. You may know what he intends, and is not this like those who said, is not this the Carpenter, &c. see what a strange Prayer he makes in Page 15;
In Page 12. Therefore, saith he, there is no more work for the Club nor the Ax; you may lay them by as useless, or hang them up in Merchant Taylors Hall. You may know what he intends, and is not this like those who said, is not this the Carpenter, &c. see what a strange Prayer he makes in Page 15;
Where he pleads his Innocency, God is a gracious God; and I think the Man is acted in Zeal, but not according to knowledge; in Page 11. he says, Our Author hath Coined a brand new Epithet, to cover that unseemly Luxurious way of tripping and Dipping Women, &c.