A47448:747
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.
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.
3. Metaphorical Baptism is that of the Spirit and of Affliction: the first signifies not a sprinkling of the Spirit, but the great Effusion of the Spirit, like that at Pentecost, Acts 1. 4, 5. Shall be baptized, &c. on which Words Casaubon speaks thus: See Dr. Duveil on Acts 2. The Greek Word [Greek or Hebrew] is to dip or plunge, as it were to die Colours, in which Sense, saith he, the Apostles might be truly said to have been baptized: for the House in which this was done, was filled with the Holy Ghost; so that the Apostles might seem to have been plunged into it as in a large Fish-Pond. Also Oecumenius on Acts 2. saith, A Wind filled the whole House, that it seemed like a Fish-Pond, because it was promised to the Apostles, that they should be baptized with the Holy Ghost. And the Baptism of Affliction are those great depths or overwhelmings of Afflictions, like that of our Saviour's suffering, i. e. no part free;