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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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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.
The Reverend Dr. Sharp the present Lord Arch-Bishop of York, in a Sermon preached before the Queens Majesty on Easter Day, March 27, 1692. saith he, and this in ancient times was taught every Christian in and by his Baptism; when ever a person was Baptized, he was not only to profess his Faith in Christs Death and Resurrection, but he was to look upon himself as obliged in correspondence therewith to mortify his former carnal affections and to enter upon a new State of Life.
The Reverend Dr. Sharp the present Lord Arch-Bishop of York, in a Sermon preached before the Queens Majesty on Easter Day, March 27, 1692. saith he, and this in antient times was taught every Christian in and by his Baptism; when ever a person was Baptized, he was not only to profess his Faith in Christs Death and Resurrection, but he was to look upon himself as obliged in correspondence therewith to mortifie his former carnal affections and to enter upon a new State of Life.
And the very form of Baptism (saith he) did lively represent this obligation to them: For what did their plunging under water signify, but their undertaking, in imitation of Christs Death and Burial, to forsake all their former evil courses; As their ascending out of the Water did their engagement to lead a Holy and Spiritual Life? This our Apostle (saith he) doth more than once declare to us thus,