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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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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 Col. 2. 12. shall, God assisting, be evinced. The whole Church of the Romans, and every member thereof were to reckon themselves dead to Sin, and were bound to live no longer therein, because by Baptism, as in a lively Figure they had held forth the same thing, nay by that Baptismal covenant they were obliged to live and walk in newness of life.
Let all Men consider in the fear of God, and take notice of the gracious design, and condescention 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 Administed) 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