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.

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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.

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Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.

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London :: Printed for H. Bernard ...,

1694.

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Collins, Hercules, d. 1702. -- Antidote proved a counterfeit, or, Error detected and believers baptism vindicated.

Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51. -- Antidote to prevent the prevalency of anabaptism.

Baptism -- Early works to 1800.

Infant baptism -- Early works to 1800.

Anabaptists.

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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47448.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 8, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE INTRODUCTION.
• CHAP. I. Wherein it is proved, That Baptism is not Sprinkling nor Pouring of Water on the Face, nor Dipping of the Head only; But that it is Dipping or Plunging of the whole Body under Water.
• CHAP. II. Wherein Mr. Shutes Reply to Mr. Hercules Collins Answer about habitual Faith is considered, detected and clearly refuted; proving that Infants are not required to believe, nor are they (without a miracle) capable so to do, nor are they intended in those places of Scripture that Enjoyns Faith on the Adult.
• CHAP. III. Proving that Infants of Believers, as such, are not in the Covenant of Grace God made with Abraham; and that there was a twofold Covenant made with A∣braham, one that peculiarly referred to his Natural Seed, as such; and the other to his Spiritual Seed, as such; with a full Answer and Confutation of what Mr. Shute hath said in his last reply to Mr. Collins, and to Benjamin Keach, in his Treatise, The Ax lay'd to the Root, about the Covenant of Grace, and that of Circumcision.
• CHAP. IV. Wherein Mr. Shutes arguments to prove our Churches no Churches, and our Bap∣tism a counterfeit, are examined and answered.
  • Arguments to prove that those Churches who are gathered by Faith and Repentance, and upon the profession of Faith are Baptized (which are called Anabaptists) are true Churches of Christ▪ which Mr. Shute denes so to be.
• CHAP. V. Containing an account of some of Mr. Shutes onseemly, Scoffing and oppro∣brious language cast upon Mr. Collins, and my self together, with his false and abusive representation of us, and of several places of Holy Scripture; with his Im∣pertinences, Inconsistences and self-contradictions, as also those abuses he hath cast on the Baptized Congregations, in which Rom. 11. 16. is explained, viz. if the Root be Holy so are the Branches. And if some of the Branches were broken off, &c.
  • Mr. Shs's abusive and false Representations of us, and false Interpretation of several places of Holy Scripture, and Gods Holy Ordinance of Dipping Belie∣vers in the Name, &c.
  • An Account of some of Mr. Shute's Impertinences, Inconsistences and Self-contradictions.
• AN APPENDIX; BEING A Reply to Mr. Shute's last single Sheet, in Answer to Mr. Collins's half Sheet; wherein the Covenant of Circumcision, &c. and free Promise of Grace, God made to Abraham, are further and distinct∣ly opened; shewing how they differ from each other.
  • An Account of Mr. Shutes scurrilous language as to the rest of this Sheet: I shall only make some remarks on his hard reproachful and Opprobrious words and abuse of Scripture.
• ERRATA.
• POSTSCRIPT, Containing several Arguments (to disprove Pedo-Bap∣tism, and to prove Believers only the Subjects thereof:) For Mr. Gyles Shute to Answer.