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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25662	The antidote proved a counterfeit, or, Error detected and believers baptism vindicated containing an answer to a nameless author's book entituled An antidote to prevent the prevalency of anabaptism / by Hercules Collins.	Collins, Hercules, d. 1702.	1693 (1693)	Wing A3498; ESTC R26646	22,680	25

they cannot bring forth good Fruit must be cut down by the Ax of Divine Wrath and cast into Eternal Fire and saith I and my party are for saving Infants by and for good Works Did ever man speak more impertinently and wrong his Antagonist more unreasonably What cannot I speak to the Adult and say Vnless you Repent you shall all perish but I must intend Infants who are not capable of it and except you believe you shall be damned And when I say He that sows to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but must intend Infants Surely the Doctrine of the Gospel was never Calculated for Infants these Lines of his must be Written through Ignorance Inadvertency or worse however it was he ought to do his Neighbour right by a publick Recantation and also of that in page 24. where he saith I smell rank of Rome Popery and Free Will because in my Book I give a reproof to the Seekers who put a slight upon the Blessed Ordinances See page 60 61 62. I little thought he would have been an Advocate for them As to my Judgment about Justifying Faith it is well known both from the Pulpit and from the Press but this is like the rest of his Writing who labours all he can to blacken the ways of God and render the Professors of it as odious as possible or else he would never have raked into the Grave of one Godly Minister who hath been Dead almost twenty Years He mentions several who have Apostatized from the Truth Judas being one of them Accumulates the Errors of some in Principles and others in Practice and jumbles them all together to make the name of a Baptist Odious nay Publisheth one particular passage of a Faithful Minister of Christ wherein he supposed some Weakness tho there was none who is now Living and an Honourable Person in the Church of God whom he calls a Pastor of a Congregation page 49. And because we with hold from Infants what Christ would not have given them he tells the World we make no better of Infants than Dogs page 11. That we have Crafty Positions uncouth Glosses that we mince and limit the Fundamental Doctrine of Mans Salvation page 48. Doth he not acquire the name of an Exquisite Calumniator when he tells the World Some of them are Arminians some Socinians some gone back to Judaism others of them Gormandizers page 51. Now Courteous Reader consider what dreadful work should we make in the Church of God if we should Preach and Publish in Print the Errors of some of the Pedo-Baptists both in Principle and Practice but while we are Mourning under the Evil of others I hope we shall not fall into the same our selves He endeavours to make those Hearts sad God would not have made sad by Misrepresenting our Opinion to the World as if we held no Baptism no Salvation and that we account all Babylon and none of the New Jerusalem but them of our Opinion and very streight in our Love and Affection Is not this the Man David speaks of That Travelleth with Iniquity Conceived Mischief and brought forth Falshood Remember remember John Child whose chief cause of Desparation was his speaking and writing against those very People of God you now do NOW I come to your Challenge in your Book page 12. I Challenge all the Anabaptists in the World to produce but one plain Text of Scripture either in the Old or New Testament from Gen. 17. to the very last of the Revelations to prove that ever the Children of Believing Parents were cast out of Covenant by any Authority from God and then I will Submit unto them MY fear is this person is so prepossest that all a Man can say tho never so much to the purpose it will not be regarded however because he hath made so fair a promise we will try if we can make him submit but pray Sir do not Answer this Book and these Arguments as my first Book for I expect a full Answer if you Write YOUR demand is That we prove Infants In-covenanting and the priviledges Children once had with their Parents repealed THEREFORE that the Covenant of Peculiarity made to Abraham and his Natural Seed as such is Abolished I prove from these four or five Arguments following laid down in so many Enthymems Argum 1. THE Natural Branches are broken off Ergo Childrens visible Incovenanting is Repealed the Antecedent of this Enthymem is cleared from the Apostles Assertion Rom. 11.19 20 21. The Branches are broken off By the Natural Branches without Controversy is to be understood the Natural Seed of Abraham and the breaking off must either be meant from a Visible Church Membership and External Priviledges thereunto belonging or the everlasting Covenant of Grace it cannot be the latter because that Covenant is Immutable therefore it must be the former God shewed Zachariah the Prophet Chap 11.10 14. upon a Prospect of the Jews Unbelief in the Messiah and their putting him to Death that he would take his staff of Beauty and his staff of Bands and break it to signify he would break the Covenant he had made with Israel and Judah who until this time were accounted the only Visible People of God in the World tho now the Partition Wall is broken down and all the Gentile Nations in the World are with the Believing Jews all one in Christ Hear worthy Mr. Cotton on the Covenant page 15. John Baptist's Ministry saith he did burn like an Oven against all the Scribes and Pharises and left them neither the Root of Abraham's Covenant nor the Branches of their own good Works Matt. 3.9 In the Preface to Dr. Owen's True Nature of Gospel Church he saith God took that numerous Progeny which came from Abraham's Loyns to himself in one Visible Body and Visible Church Membership The whole Nation being the same Politick Ecclesiastical Body saith Mr. Tombes which Church state was only Carnal as their Ordinances were but saith the Preface when God had divorced that People Abolished their Mosaical Constitution by breaking their Staff of Beauty and Bands then he erects his Gospel Church calls in Disciples by his Ministry forms them into a Body and furnisheth them with Officers so that this Covenant is taken up by the Roots and the Natural Branches broken off none excepted but the Natural Branches which remain so by Faith in the Messiah and so they broken off may be Grafted in again but until then they remain broken off ergo the Visible Incovenanting of Infants is Repealed for they could not be broken off the Everlasting Covenant of Grace therefore it must be the Covenant of Pecularity made with Abraham Arg. 2. NONE are Christ's Disciples but such as take up his Cross and follow him ergo Infants are not Disciples and so no Visible Members of a Gospel Church The Antecedent is fully proved from our Saviours Assertion Luke 14.26 27. If any man come unto me and hate not his Father and