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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,…
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.
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, Rom. 6. 3. 4. We are buried with Christ by Baptism unto Death, that like as Christ was raised up by the glory of the Father, so we should walk in newness of Life. Thus Dr. Sharp.
And the very form of Baptism (saith he) did lively represent this obligation to them: For what did their plunging under water signifie, 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, Rom. 6. 3. 4. We are buried with Christ by Baptism unto Death, that like as Christ was raised up by the glory of the Father, so we should walk in newness of Life. Thus Dr. Sharp.
Dr. Fowler (Now Lord Bishop of Gl• cester) in his Book of design of Christianity Page 90. on Rom. 6. 3, 4. saith, Christians being plunged into the Water, signifies their undertaking and obliging themselves in a Spiritual sense, to die and to be buried with Jesus Christ in an utter renouncing and forsaking all their Sins, that so answering to his resurrection they may live a Holy & godly life.