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A47448	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.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1694 (1694)	Wing K54; ESTC R18808	95,415	63

and in the like safe condition 3. 'T is evident that the legal Church of the Jews was not made up of the same matter or ingredients as the Gospel Church is for according to the Institution of the Gospel Church none ought to be made members of it but Believers only But in the Jewish Church the fleshy or carnal Seed were admitted by Gods ordination and appointment God did allow of the fleshy Seed as such then to be members of that Church but he doth not allow of such to be in the Gospel Church You mention in Page 100. that in Exod. 25. 31. And thou shalt make a Candlestick of pure Gold c. and you hint this was the Church and the ordinances of God And therefore the ingredients are the same under the Gospel as the Church was under the Law Answer I Though the Candlestick of pure Gold had been a shaddow or Figure of some thing to come and that it referred not to the legal Church but to the Church under the Gospel and this being so how can this prove that Church consisted of the same matter and ingredients as the Gospel Church does 3. You say that the Church of God under the Mosaick Law lived upon the same Spiritual Food as the Church of Christ doth now c. Page 93. 1. Answer All that were of the mystical Body of Christ then 't is true did feed on the same spiritual food 2. But pray consider what you say Can any of those that feed on the Flesh of Christ and drink his Blood perish for 't is evident many who are said to Eat of the same spiritual Meat and drank the same spiritual Drink perished in the Wilderness 1 Cor. 10. 5 6 7 8. 3. They all Eat the same Manna that Caleb and Joshua did which is called Heavenly or Spiritual Meat and Drank of the Water out out of the Rock that was a Typ of Christ The Jews say our Annotators Eat the same Spiritual Meat that we do now they in the Type we in the Antitype they as a Church had but the Shell comparatively and we the Kernel they had the shadow we the substance their Ordinances were called Carnal Ordinances and their promises Earthly ours are Spiritual Ordinances and better promises Therefore the Church under the Gospel does not feed on the same food which the Church did under the Law 4. You say the Church under the Law was Baptised Men Women and Children And there can be no true Church but what is so now You mention that in 1 Cor. 10. 1. 2. Here is a Church say you Baptized c. and not one of them Dipped or Duck'd over Head and Ears Answer You mistake the Jewish Church was no Baptized Church they had no Ordinance of Baptism this was but a Typical Baptism but if they were as they passed through the Sea Baptised and yet only Sprinkled by Rain faling upon them from the Cloud then you will make the Church of Israel all Anabaptists for they were all Sprinkled after they passed through the Sea see Exod. 24 ● and Moses took the Blood and Sprinkled it on the People both the Book and all the People Heb. 9. ●9 'T is evident you by this render them to be all Rebaptised should what you say be granted 2. But Sprinkling is not Baptising nor was that a real but a Typical Baptism i. e. when they passed through the Sea nor was their Children any more Baptised than was that mixt People which were with them for so 't is said and much Cattel also But that Typical Baptism bears great Analogy with Dipping as Mr. Pools Annotations well observes on the place The Apostle useth that term in regard say they of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism as it was used the persons going down into the Waters and being Dipped in them and the Israelites going down into the Sea the great receptacle of Water tho' the Water at that time was gathered on heaps on either side of them yet they seemed buried in the Water This they give from some as the most probable sense of the place And This being so you need not call the Anabaptists to wonder at what you thought you had got here Do you think that among the Jews that passed through the Sea there were not some Unbelievers as well as among that mixt People will you plead for the Baptising of Prophane and ungodly persons for this will justify their being Baptised as far forth as that of the Infant Seed of Believers Thus I have answered all your arguments to prove there is no difference betwixt the State and Nature of the Gospel Church and that under the Law and further to convince you of your mistake in pleading for such a Church take Dr. O●●ens sentiments and some other Reverend Independents of a Gospel Church and of the Dissolution of the Jewish Church Question What is an Instituted Church of the Gospel he answers Answer A society of persons called out of the world or their natural Worldly state by the Administration of the Word and Spirit unto obedience of the Faith or knowledg and Worship of God in Christ joyned together in an Holy Band or by special agreement for the exercise of the Communion of Saints in due observation of all the Ordinances of the Gospel Catech p. 19. See also Page 91. how he distinguishes a Gospel Church from the Church under the Law which he calls a National Church Again he saith Page 93. the National Church of the Jews with all the Ordinances of it being removed and taken away the Lord Christ hath appointed particular Churches or united Assemblies of Believers c. See Reverend Mr. Fords Gospel Church opened Chap. 1. Page 5. where he gives a right discription of a Gospel Church Instituted by Christ viz. a society of Godly Christians who give themselves first to the Lord and then to one another c. In Chap. 3. Page 22. he shews the matter of a Gospel Church more fully and that it doth consist only of regenerate and converted persons Such as are Married to and have put on Christ such that are savingly and powerfully enlightned and enlivened quickened and convinced of Sin of Righteousness and Judgment Now are Infants capable of these things again he says Page 25. that all Church Members ought to be sincere hearted Believers c. Where is your Infant Church Membership if what these worthy Ministers say be right as be sure it is I cite these Authors to convince you that you have not a right notion of a Gospel Church in that you say it differs not from the Church of the Jews which was national if you are no Independent but are for a National Church bring forth your arguments but first consult Dr. Owen c. The Dr. saith further viz. that God doth require regeneration as an indispensable condition in a Member of his Church a Subject of his Kingdom for his Temple is now built of living Ston●s ● Tet. 2.

had no better Counsel or followed no better Conduct at such an hour as this is it sure concerns us all to study the things that make for Peace and that by which we may edifie one another the Breach is too wide already O what want of Love is there in Christians to each other who are all Members of the Mystical Body of Christ and Children of one Father and Heirs of the same glorious Inheritance Sure we shall love one another when we come to Heaven and I hope His Reverend Pastor whom I have more cause both to love and honour than ten thousand Instructors in Christ he being the blessed Instrument in my Conversion all most forty Years ago gave no Encouragement to him thus to write and abuse his Brethren I would he had consider'd the Text He that hateth his Brother is in Darkness Joh. 2. 11. For my part I hope I can say I love them in whom I see the Image of God that differ from me in the like degree as those of mine own Opinion I am persuaded the want of Love to one another is one of the greatest Sins of this Age and that which is a high Provocation to God and if that which this Man hath done is a fruit of Love or tends to promote it I am mistaken True I have may be wrote as much of late as another on the Subject of Baptism but never without Provocation by means of divers Persons who have of late times wrote against us I have not begun the Controversie but have still been on the defensive Side nor can any justly blame us to clear our selves and defend that which we believe to be the Truth of Christ when urged to it As to his Answer to Mr. Collins he hath said something 't is true to one or two of his Arguments but the rest he has passed by in silence and left the chief Argumentive part in a great measure unanswered And as to his Reply to me I cannot see he hath said any thing that deserveth my notice at all but lest the easie unwary and prejudiced Reader should conclude he hath done Wonders should we aot return an Answer I have examined the stress of all that seems Argumentive which contains but a small part of his Book and having studied Moderation and Tenderness I hope it may tend to allay and quench the Fire of his Passion and bring him to a more moderate Temper However I shall leave it to the Blessing of God to dispose of the Issue of it as he shall seem good in his all-wise Providence and to help the Reader I have divided his Book into Chapters in my Answer and since he begins with the form or manner of baptizing there I shall begin also 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 I Shall begin with Mr. Sbute's Fifth Page and shall shew him that he hath not yet buried Mr. Collins his answer but that it is still alive and as lively as it was before his pretended Answer came forth In pag. 6. he r●cited what Mr. Cobins mentioned in the 2d page of his Reply to his Antidote viz. where Mr. Cobins says The right mode of Baptism is by Dipping To which Mr. Shute saith in p. 5. I think there is more to be said for Sprinkling or Pouring Water on the Face in Baptism than there is for Dipping or Ducking over Head and Ears in a River or Pond For the latter is more like a Punishment of Criminals than the Solemnizing of an Ordinance of God pray hear what the Scripture saith of Sprinkling and of Pouring Water upon Sinners to cleanse them Heb 12. 24 And to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant and to the Blood of Sprinkling c. ● Pet. 1. 2. Elect according to the Foreknowledge of God the Father through Sanctification of the Spirit unto Obedience and Sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ. And Isa. 44 3. For I will pour Water upon him that is thirsty and F●oods upon the dry Ground I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed and my blessings upon thine Off-spring Ez ● 36. 25. Then will I sprinkle cl●an Water upon you and ye shall be cl●an from all your Filthiness and from all your ●●ols w●● I cleanse you Ed●d 2● 8. Here you see say you we do not read of Dipping nor Ducking in all those spiritual Metaphorical Baptisms which are all nearly re●ued unto the Ordinance of Baptism and t●n● to the fam thing but more effectually and perfectly and are accompanied with the same Promises namely the Remission of Sins Sanctification by the Spirit and the Gift of the Holy Ghost compared with Acts 2. 38 39. Answer 1. You might have added many other Places of Scripture where we read of Sprinkling But what would it signify the Sprinkling and Pouring mentioned in these Scriptures refer not to Water Baptism Read your learned Annotators and Expositors and you will find they agree as one Man That Sprinkling and Pouring of Water in Isaiah and Ezekiel c. do refer to the graci us Effusion of the Spirit in the Times of the Gospel and to the Purifying and Purging Vertue of the Blood of Christ and so that in Heb. 12 24. is to be understood you should not only say but prove Baptism to be here intended and then yoù had said something 2. Should the Sprinkling or Pouring in these Scriptures be meant of Baptism then it would follow that Baptism has mighty Vertue in it indeed even to wash away all Sin and Filthiness I thought nothing could cleanse from Sin out Christ's precious blood as it is applyed by the Spirit through Faith Baptism Peter tells you washes not away the Filthiness of the Flesh. Not the putting away of the Filthiness of the Flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 3. 20. 3. If you should say Baptism is chiefly a Sign or lively Symbol of our being sprinkled with the Spirit or with the Blood of Jesus Christ we do deny it You have not attempted to prove it 't is evident Baptism is principally a Sign or Symbol of Christ's Death Burial and Resurrection see Rom. 6. 3 4. Col. 2. 12 13. compared with this in 1 Pet. 3. 20. which Sprinkling or Pouring cannot hold forth 4. But you intimate That these Spiritual Metaphorical Baptisms are nearly related to the Ordinance of Baptism I answer by pouring Floods of Water or by the great Effusion of the Spirit I deny not but the Baptism of the Spirit may be held forth and the Baptism of the Spirit signifies Immersion Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost c. Acts 1. 5. The Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 says Casaubon Is to Dip or Plunge in which Sense saith he the Apostles might be said to have been Baptized