A47448:701
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.
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 E••ns, p. 38, 39.
And as to the Minor, 'tis acknowledged by our Adversaries, it is not to be found in the Letter of the Scripture. And as to the Consequences drawn therefrom, we have proved, they are not natural from the Premises; and though we ad•••• of Consequences and Inferences if genuine, yet no• in the case of an Institution respecting a practical Ordinance that is of mere positive Right.
And as to the Minor, 'tis acknowledged by our Adversaries, it is not to be found in the Letter of the Scripture. And as to the Consequences drawn therefrom, we have proved, they are not natural from the Premises; and though we ad•••• of Consequences and Inferences if genuine, yet no• in the case of an Institution respecting a practical Ordinance that is of meer positive Right.