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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
Chapter 1: Wherein it is proved, That Baptism is not Sprinkling nor Pouring of Water on the Face,…
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Answer, 'Tis very true, the Apostle doth draw his argument from vers. 4, 5. &c. but not from Luk. 12. 50. the Text you mention about Christs Baptism of suffering, so that 'tis evident to all you have abused this Sacred Text also, and pressed it in, to serve your purpose: Pray read all the Annotators you can get on the place particularly, Mr. Pools, and see if any favour your exposition of it.
Answer, 'Tis very true, the Apostle doth draw his argument from vers. 4, 5. &c. but not from Luk. 12. 50. the Text you mention about Christs Baptism of suffering, so that 'tis evident to all you have abused this Sacred Text also, and prest it in, to serve your purpose: Pray read all the Annotators you can get on the place particularly, Mr. Pools, and see if any favour your exposition of it.
2. Tho' I have said enough to silence this Man or any other upon this Text, Rom. 6. 3, ⟨p. 9⟩4, 5. in two Treatises, yet left they come not into the Author or Readers Hand, I shall repeat some passages once again.
Let all Men consider in the fear of God, and take notice of the gracious design, and condescension of our blessed Saviour in his instituting of the two great ordinances of the Gospel, viz. the Lords Supper and Baptism; for as that of the Lords Supper doth in a lively Figure represent the breaking of his Body, and the pouring forth of his Blood, so the ordinance of Baptism doth as clearly (if rightly Administered) represent or hold forth the Death, Burial, and resurrection of the same Lord Jesus: Together with our death to sin and rising again to walk in newness of Life; and that this appears from this Text and that in