A47448:739
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.
But Infants baptized are not in Scripture called Men washed, sanctified, justified, they are not called Saints, Churches of Saints, Christians, nor sanctified ones. Ergo, Infants ought not to be baptized. If any should say, why did you not cite these Assertions of Mr. B•• tn's whilst he was living? I answer, More then twelve Years ago I did recite and print these Assertions, and many other Arguments of his to the same Purpose, •o which he gave no Answer.
But Infants baptized are not in Scripture called Men washed, sanctified, justified, they are not called Saints, Churches of Saints, Christians, nor sanctified ones. Ergo, Infan•s ought not to be baptized. If any should say, why did you not cite these Assertions of Mr. B•• tn's whilst he was living? I answer, More then twelve Years ago I did recite and print these Assertions, and many other Arguments of his to the same Purpose, •o which he gave no Answer.
Arg. 24. If there is but •ne way for all, both Parents and Children to be ad•i•••d into the Gospel-Church to the End of the World, and that it is upon the Profession of Faith to be baptized; then both Par•••s and Children must upon the Profession of their Faith be baptized, and so admitted, &c. But there is but one way for all, bo•• Pa•e••• and Children, to be admitted into the Gospel-Church to the End of the World, and that is upon the Profession of their Faith to be baptized. Ergo.