A47448:712
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.
Arg. 14. If Men were not to presume to alter any thing in the Worship of God under the Law, neither to add thereto, nor diminish therefrom, and God is as strict and jealous of his Worship under the Gospel; then nothing ought to be altered in God's Worship under the Gospel. But under the Law Men were not to presume so to do, and God is as strict and jealous under the Gospel. Ergo.
The Major cannot be denied.
The Minor is clear; See thou make all things according to the Pattern showed thee in the Mount, Exod. 25. 40. and Levit. 10. 1, 2. See how Nadab and Abihu sped, for presuming to vary from the Command of God, and Uzzah, tho but in small Circumstances as they may seem to us. How dare Men adventure, this being so, to change Baptism from Dipping into Sprinkling, and the Subject, from an Adult Believer, to an ignorant Babe? Add thou not into his Word, &c.
The Minor is clear; See thou make all things according to the Pattern shewed thee in the Mount, Exod. 25. 40. and Levit. 10. 1, 2. See how Nadab and Abihu sped, for presuming to vary from the Command of God, and Uzzah, tho but in small Circumstances as they may seem to us. How dare Men adventure, this being so, to change Baptism from Dipping into Sprinkling, and the Subject, from an Adult Believer, to an ignorant Babe? Add thou not into his Word, &c.