A47448:737
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.
If Profession of Faith were not necessary, saith Mr. Baxter, coram Ecclesiâ, to Church-Membership and Privileges, then Infidels and Heathens would have Right; also, saith he, the Church and the World would be confounded. He might have added, but Infidels and Heathens have no Right to Church-Membership, &c. Ergo, 'Tis a granted Case among all Christians, saith he, that Profession is thus necessary, the Apostles and Ancient Church admitted none without it; pag. 2•. And if so, why dare any now a days admit of Infants, who are capable to make no Profession. He adds, Y•• Christ in his Commission directeth his Apostles to make Disciples, and t•en baptize them, promising, He that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved, Mark 16. 16. pag. 27. Furthermore he saith, I• as many as are baptized into Christ, are baptized into his Death, and are buried with him by Baptism into Death; that like as Christ was raised from the Dead, so we also, should walk in Newness of Life, &c. Then no doubt, saith he, but such as were to be baptized, did first profess this Mortification, and a Consent to be buried, &c. I• our Baptism we put off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh, by the Circumcision of Christ, being buried with him, and raised with him through Faith, quickened with him, and having all our Trespasses forgiven, Col. 2. 11, 12, 13. And will any Man (says he) ye•, will Paul ascribe all this to those that did not so much as profess the things signified? Will Baptism, in the Judgment of a wise Man, do all this for an Infidel, (or, say I, for an In••nt) that cannot make a Profession that he is a Christian? pag. 31, 32. He proceeds.
If Profession of Faith were not necessary, saith Mr. Baxter, coram Ecclesiâ, to Church-Membership and Priviledges, then Infidels and Heathens would have Right; also, saith he, the Church and the World would be consounded. He might have added, but Infidels and Heathens have no Right to Church-Membership, &c. Ergo, 'Tis a granted Case among all Christians, saith he, that Profession is thus necessary, the Apostles and Ancient Church admitted none without it; pag. 2. And if so, why dare any now a days admit of Infants, who are capable to make no Profession. He adds, Y Christ in his Commission directeth his Apostles to make Disciples, and ten baptize them, promising, He that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved,