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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
Chapter 1: Wherein it is proved, That Baptism is not Sprinkling nor Pouring of Water on the Face,…
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We perform the Symbols of his death (Mark it Reader) not of the pouring forth of, or sprinkling of his Blood, nor of the Spirit; no, no; but as these Authors say, 'tis a Symbol of his Death, Burial and Resurrection, which sprinkling in no manner of way can represent. Justin Martyr saith, we know but one saving Baptism, in regard there is but one Resurrection from the Dead, of which Baptism is an Image.
We perform the Symbols of his death (Mark it Reader) not of the pouring forth of, or sprinkling of his Blood, nor of the Spirit; no, no; but as these Authors say, 'tis a Symbol of his Death, Burial and Resurrection, which sprinkling in no manner of way can represent. Justin Martyr saith, we know but one saving Baptism, inregard there is but one Resurrection from the Dead, of which Baptism is an Image.
And from hence we know nothing of your Infants sprinkling. See more in Sir Norton Knatchbul's Notes Printed at Oxford 1677. who to the same purpose quotes Basil the Great, Lactantius, Bernard, &c.
Mr. Perkins 2. Vol. Cap. 3. on Gal. saith, the Dipping of the Body signifies Mortification or fellowship with Christ in his death, the staying under the Water signifies the burial of Sin, and coming out of the Water the Resurrection from Sin to newness of life: And in another place saith, the ancient custom of Baptizing was to Dip all the Body of the Baptized in Water. To these Ancient Writers let are once again add here for your further conviction, what some of the chefest Prelates of the Church of England have very lately said on, Rom. 6. 3, 4.