A47448:733
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 in the said Treatise lays down the Substance of this Argument also, take his own Words, i. e. As their Sins are not forgiven them till they are converted, Mark 4. 12. so they must not be baptized for the Forgiveness of them, till they pro•ess themselves converted, seeing to the Church, non esse, and non-appare•• is all one. Repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus is the Sum of that Preaching that makes Disciples, Acts 20. 21. Therefore, saith he, both these must by a Profession seem to be received, before any at Age are baptized; p. 30. 31. And evident it is, say I, from hence none but such at Age ought to be baptized. Philip caused the E••ugh to profess before he would baptize him, that he believed that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Saul had also, saith he, more than a bare Profession before Baptism, Acts 9. 5, 15, 17. p. 28. The Promise it self, saith he doth expressly require a Faith of our own, of all the Adult that will have part in the Privileges: therefore there is a Faith of our own, that is the Condition of our Title; M••k 16. 16. p. 16.
Mr. Baxter in the said Treatise lays down the Substance of this Argument also, take his own Words, i. e. As their Sins are not forgiven them till they are converted, Mark 4. 12. so they must not be baptized for the Forgiveness of them, till they pro•ess themselves converted, seeing to the Church, non esse, and non-appare•• is all one. Repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus is the Sum of that Preaching that makes Disciples, Acts 20. 21. Therefore, saith he, both these must by a Profession seem to be received, before any at Age are baptized; p. 30. 31. And evident it is, say I, from hence none but such at Age ought to be baptized. Philip caused the Eugh to profess before he would baptize him, that he believed that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Saul had also, saith he, more than a bare Profession before Baptism,