A47448:726
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. 19. All that were baptized in the Apostolical Primitive Times, were baptized upon the Profession of Faith, were baptized into Christ, and thereby put on Christ, and were all one in Christ Jesus, and were Abraham's Seed and Heirs, according to Promise. But Infants, as such, who are baptized, were not baptized upon the Profession of their Faith, nor did they put on Christ thereby, ⟨p. 6⟩nor are they all one in Christ Jesus, also are not Abraham's Seed and Heirs according to Promise. Ergo, Infants ought not to be baptized.
Mr. Baxter confirms the Substance of the Major. These are his very Words, •. •. As many as have been baptized •iv• put on Christ, and are all one in Christ Jesus; and are Abraham's Seed, and Heirs▪ according to the Promis•, Gal. 3. 27, 28, 20. This speaks the Apostle, saith he, of the Probability grounded on a credible Profession, &c. Baxter's Confirm Reconcil. pag. 32.
The Minor will stand firm till any can prove Infants by a visible Profession have put on Christ, are all one in Christ Jesus, are Abraham's Seed and Heirs according to Promise: Evident it is, none are the spiritual Seed of Abraham, but such who have the Faith of Abraham, and are truly grafted into Christ, by a Saving-Faith. If any object, We read of some who were baptized, who had no Saving-Faith, but were Hypocrites. I answer; Had they appeared to be such, they had not been baptized, nor had they a true Right thereto.