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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
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.
Isychius saith, Let us who will have any thing observed of God, search no more but that which the Gospel doth give unto us. Lib. 5. c. 16. on Levit.
Bellarmin saith, That though the Arguments of the Anabaptists, from the defect of Command or Example, have a great Use against the Lutherans, forasmuch as they use that Rite every where, having no Command or example, theirs is to be rejected; yet is it of no Force against Catholics, who conclude the Apostolical Tradition is of no less Authority with us than the Scripture, &c. this of baptizing of Infants is an Apostolical Tradition. Bellarm. in his Book de Bapt. 1 1. c. 8.
Bellarmin saith, That though the Arguments of the Anabaptists, from the defect of Command or Example, have a great Use against the Lutherans, forasmuch as they use that Rite every where, having no Command or •xample, theirs is to be re•ected; yet is it of no Force against Catholicks, who conclude the Apostolical Tradition is of no less Authority with us than the Scripture, &c. this of baptizing of Infants is an Apostolical Tradition. Bellarm. in his Book de Bapt. 1 1. c. 8.
Mr. Ball saith, We must for every Ordinance look to the Institution, and never stretch it wider, nor draw it narrower than the Lord hath made it, for he is the Institutor of the Sacraments according to his own Pleasure; and 'tis our part to learn of him, both to whom, how, and for what End the Sacraments are to be administered. Ball, in his Answer to the New-England E••ns, p. 38, 39.
Mr. Ball saith, We must for every Ordinance look to the Institution, and never stretch it wider, nor draw it narrower than the Lord hath made it, for he is the Institutor of the Sacraments according to his own Pleasure; and 'tis our part to learn of him, both to whom, how, and for what End the Sacraments are to be administred. Ball, in his Answer to the New-England Ens, p. 38, 39.