A47448:749
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.
4. The spiritual Signification thereof is the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Christ, and of our Death to Sin, and Vivification to a new Life.
This being so, it follows undeniably Sprinkling cannot be Christ's true Baptism, it must be Immersion, and nothing else.
And in the last Place, Finally, To confirm that Baptizo is to dip, both from the literal and spiritual Signification thereof, as also from those typical and metaphorical Baptisms mentioned in the Scripture, I might add further, that this evidently appears from the Practice of John Baptist and the Apostles of Christ, who baptized in Rivers, and where there was much Water: and also, because the Baptizer and Baptized are said to go down into the Water, (not down to the Water) and came up out of the Water. John Baptist is said to baptize them into Jordan, as the Greek Word renders it, which shows it dipping and not sprinkling. Would it be proper to say, He sprinkled them into Jordan▪ The Lord open the Eyes of those who see not, to consider these things.
And in the last Place, Finally, To confirm that Baptizo is to dip, both from the literal and spiritual Signification thereof, as also from those typical and metaphorical Baptisms mentioned in the Scripture, I might add further, that this evidently appears from the Practice of John Baptist and the Apostles of Christ, who baptized in Riuers, and where there was much Water: and also, because the Baptizer and Baptized are said to go down into the Water, (not down to the Water) and came up out of the Water. John Baptist is said to baptize them into Jordan, as the Greek Word renders it, which shews it dipping and not sprinkling. Would it be proper to say, He sprinkled them into Jordan▪ The Lord open the Eyes of those who see not, to consider these things.