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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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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.
Also Dr. Sherlock (Dean of St. Pauls) in his Sermon, Charity without usury, on Rom. 6. 3, 4. saith, Our conformity to the Death and Resurrection of our Saviour, consists in dying to Sin and walking in newness of Life: Which saith he, St. Paul tells us is represented by the External ceremony of Baptism, and rising out of his watery Grave a new creature.
Also Dr. Sherlock (Dean of St. Pauls) in his Sermon, Charity without usury, on Rom. 6. 3, 4. saith, Our conformity to the Death and Resurrection of our Saviour, consists in dying to Sin and walking in newness of Life: Which saith he, St. Paul tells us is represented by the External ceremony of Baptism, and rising out of his watry Grave a new creature.
Moreover, unto these let me add what Dr. Tillotson, the present Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury hath wrote; see his Book styled Sermons on several occasions 5th. Edit Page 188, 189. Speaking also of the same Text, Rom. 6. 3, 4. Anciently, saith he, those who were Baptised put off their garments, which signified the putting off the Body of Sin; and were immersed and buried in the Water, to represent the Death of Sin; and then did rise up again out of the Water, to signify their entrance upon a new Life. And to these customs the Apostle alludes when he says, How shall we that are dead to Sin live any longer therein? Know ye not that so many of us that were Baptized into Jesus Christ, were Baptized into his Death, &c.