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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.
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.
Arg. 20. Baptism is the solemnizing of the Souls Marriage-Union with Christ, which Marriage-Contract absolutely requires an actual Profession of consent. Infants are not capable to enter into▪ a Marriage-Union with Christ, no• to make a Profession of Consent. Ergo, Infants ought not to be baptized.