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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.
The Major our Opposites generally grant, particularly see what Mr. Baxter saith, Our Baptism is the solemni•ing of our Marriage with Christ. These are his Words, p. 32.
The Major our Opposits generally grant, particularly see what Mr. Baxter saith, Our Baptism is the solemni•ing of our Marriage with Christ. These are his Words, p. 32.
The Minor none can deny: No Man sure in his right Mind, will assert that little Babes are capable to enter into a Marriage-Relation with Christ, and to make a Profession of a Consent: And the Truth is, he in the next Words gives away his Cause, viz. And 'tis, saith he, a new and strange kind of Marriage, where there is no Profession of Consent; p. 32. How unhappy was this Man to plead for such a n•w and strange kind of Marriage: Did he find any little Babe he ever baptized (or rather rantize•) to make a Profession of Consent to be married to Jesus Christ. If any should object, he speaks of the Baptism of the Adult. I answer, his Words are these, `Our Baptism is, &c. Besides, will any Pedo-Baptist say, that the Baptism of the Adult is the solemnizing of the Souls Marriage with Christ, and not the Baptism of Infants. Reader, observe how our Opposites are forced sometimes to speak the Truth, ••ough it overthrows their own Practice of Pedo-Baptism.
The Minor none can deny: No Man sure in his right Mind, will assert that little Babes are capable to enter into a Marriage-Relation with Christ, and to make a Profession of a Consent: And the Truth is, he in the next Words gives away his Cause, viz. And 'tis, saith he, a new and strange kind of Marriage, where there is no Profession of Consent; p. 32. How unhappy was this Man to plead for such a n•w and strange kind of Marriage: Did he find any little Babe he ever baptized (or rather rantize•) to make a Profession of Consent to be married to Jesus Christ. If any should object, he speaks of the Baptism of the Adult. I answer, his Words are these, `Our Baptism is, &c. Besides, will any Pedo-Baptist say, that the Baptism of the Adult is the solemnizing of the Souls Marriage with Christ, and not the Baptism of Infants. Reader, observe how our Opposits are forced sometimes to speak the Truth, ough it overthrows their own Practice of Pedo-Baptism.