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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.
Arg. 27. If Baptism be Immersion, as to the proper and genuine signification of the word Baptizo, as also of those Typical and Metaphorical Baptisms and the spiritual Signification thereof; then Sprinkling cannot be Christ's true Baptism. But Immersion is the proper and genuine signification of the word Baptizo, and also of those Typical and Metaphorical Baptisms spoken of, and the spiritual Signification thereof. Ergo, Sprinkling is not Christ's true Baptism.
1. That the proper and genuine Signification of the word Baptizo is Immersion, or to •ip, &c. we have proved, which is also confessed by the Learned in that Language.
2. The Figurative Baptism was, 1st. That of the Red Sea, wherein the Fathers were buried, as it were, unto Moses in the Sea, and under the Cloud. Pools Annotations on 1 Cor. 10. 2. Others, saith he, more probably think that the Apostle useth this term, in regard of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism (as it was then used) the Persons going down into the Waters, and being dipped in them; and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great Receptacle of Water, though the Water at that time was gathered on Heaps on either side of them; yet they seemed buried in the Water, as Persons in that Age were when they were baptized, &c. The 2d. was that of Noah's Ark. See Sir Norton Knatchbull: The Ark of Noah and Baptism, saith be, were both a Type and Figure of the Resurrection, not the Sign of the washing away of Sin, though so taken metonymically, but a particular Signal of the Resurrection of Christ: of this Baptism is a lively and emphatical Figure, as also was the Ark of Noah, out of which he returned as from a Sepulchre, to a new Life.