A47448:722
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
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And shall one positive Precept given forth by Christ, who appointed so few in the New Testament, be so obscure, as also the ground and end of it, that Men should be confounded about the Proofs of it, together with the end and ground thereof? See Heb. 3. 5, 6.
Arg. 17. That Custom or Law which Moses never delivered to the Jews, nor is any where written in the Old Testament, was no Truth of God, nor of Divine Authority. But that Custom or Law to baptize Proselytes either Men, Women or Children, was never given to the Jews by Moses, nor is it any where written in the Old Testament. Ergo, It was no Truth of God, nor of Divine Authority: And evident it is, as Sir Norton Knatchbul shows, That the Jewish Rabbi•s differed among themselves also about it: for, saith he, Rabbi Eleazar expressly contradicts Rabbi Joshua, who▪ was the first I know of who asserted this sort of Baptism among the Jews: For Eleazar, who was contemporary with Rabbi Joshua, if he did not live before him, asserts, that a Proselyte circumcised and not baptized, was a true Proselyte.
Arg. 17. That Custom or Law which Moses never delivered to the Jews, nor is any where written in the Old Testament, was no Truth of God, nor of Divine Authority. But that Custom or Law to baptize Proselytes either Men, Women or Children, was never given to the Jews by Moses, nor is it any where written in the Old Testament. Ergo, It was no Truth of God, nor of Divine Authority: And evident it is, as Sir Norton Knatchbul shews, That the Jewish Rabbi•s differed among themselves also about it: for, saith he, Rabbi Eli•zer expresly contradicts Rabbi Joshua, who▪ was the first I know of who asserted this sort of Baptism among the Jews: For Eli•zer, who was contemporary with Rabbi Joshua, if he did not live before him, asserts, that a Proselyte circumcised and not baptized, was a true Proselyte.