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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

e●se to their Peril be it who Constitute Churches any other way or Initiate Members contrary to the Apostolick Practice Arg. 4. THAT which is contrary to the Doctrine and Practice of John Christ and his Apostles is of Human Invention BUT the Baptism of Infants is contrary to the Doctrine and Practice of John Christ and his Apostles ergo the Baptism of Infants is of Human Invention FOR the Minor That the Baptism of Infants is contrary to the Doctrine and Practice of John Christ and his Apostles the whole New Testament Witnesseth That the Subjects of this Ordinance were Understanding Believers not Ignorant Infants and Dipping not Sprinkling the manner of Administration and therefore the consequence of the Major is true That Infant Baptism is of Human Invention Arg. 5. That Practice which hath no Promise Annexed unto it either of Sins Remiss●on Divine Presen●e the Gift of the Holy Ghost nor Salvation cannot be of God or Divine Appointment BUT Pedo-Baptism hath no Promise annexed unto it either of Sins Remission Divine Presence the Gift of the Holy Ghost nor Salvation ergo Pedo Baptism cannot be of God or Divine Appointment Arg. 6. That Practice in the Church which hath the Promise of sins Remission Divine Presence the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Salvation annexed unto it is of God and Divine Authority BUT the Baptism of Believers upon Profession of Faith hath the Promise of Sins Remission Divine Presence the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Salvation annexed unto it Mat. 28.18 Acts 2.38 Mark 16.16 Ergo The Baptism of Believers upon Profession of Faith is of God and Divine Authority Arg. 7. THAT manner of Administration of Baptism which no way answers the Commission nor Intention of Christ the Law-maker cannot be Authentick BUT the Administration of Baptism by Sprinkling Pouring or Dropping doth no way answer the Commission nor Intention of Christ the Law-maker ergo the Administration of Baptism by Sprinkling Pouring or Dropping is not Authentick The Minor is clear That the Administration of Baptism by Sprinkling Dropping or Pouring doth no way answer Christ the Law maker's Commission because he Commands the Subject to be Dipt Immersed Buried in pursuance of which Command the Apostles did always so Practice Secondly It can no way answer the intention of Christ the Law-giver because his Intention was That it should be a lively representation of the Death Burial and Resurrection of Christ together with the Believers Death to Sin and a Resurrection to a new Life all which appears Rom. 6.1 2 3 4 5 6. Colos 2 12. Now what Similitude or likeness is between Sprinkling and Christ's Death Burial and Resurrection I leave to all the Judicious to consider would Christ take such care to have his Death set forth in Lively Figures at the Lord's Table in breaking Bread and pouring out Wine And would Christ appoint a Dead Figure in Baptism No no. Ar● 8. THAT Baptism which hath manifest Absurdities cannot be of God But the Baptism of Infants hath manifold Absurdities ergo the Baptism of Infants cannot be of God The Minor is thus proved It 's full of Absurdities because asserted by some That persons have Regeneration in their Baptism before Vocation and may be visible Church Members before Conversion moreover that persons may be baptised by anothers Faith and making a National Gospel-Church instead of a Congregational and bringing in a Carnal Fleshly Seed into Christ's Church in the room of a Spiritual Seed That Faith and Repentance is required of persons before baptised yet confess that Children unto whom they apply it have neither Again They profess that Baptism is a Demonstration of a Spiritual Marriage between God and the Believer and yet Assign it unto One as uncapable of such a thing as a Stock or Stone Moreover that the Baptismal Covenant enters into the Visible Church yet deny Church Members the Lord's Supper Arg. 9. That Baptism that Introduceth Gross Errors into the Church cannot be Divine but Human. But the Baptism of Infants introduceth gross Errors into the Church ergo the Baptism of Infants cannot be Divine but Humane The Minor thus appears of its introducing Errors It was first used to wash away Original Sin which nothing but Christ's Blood could do Again It 's used to work Grace and Regeneration and Effect Salvation by the Work done and against all sence some say It is an Apostolical Tradition and that Children have Faith are Disciples of Christ that all Children of believers are in the Covenant of Grace defiling and polluting the Church with false matter and confounding the Church and the World together introducing many Traditions and Inventions of Anti-christ with it as Gossips or Sureties Bishoping or Confirmation Chrism Exorcism Consignation finally it hath made a great deal of Contention in the World and filled many with prejudice Arg. 10. The proper Subjects of Baptism are such who are capable of hearing the Word and Teaching of Repenting Confessing of Sin believing in Christ and doing it as Christ's Commission a part of Gospel Righteousness as Gods Councel and as the Answer of a good Conscience and ought to do it as a Symbol of Christ's Death and Resurrection together with our own Death unto Sin and Resurrectito a New Life ergo Infants are not the proper Subjects of Baptism Mr. Perkins saith The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Interrogation 1 Pet. 3.21 of a good Conscience signifieth a Stipulation or Promise which the person Baptised makes in Baptism and further saith He hath a double Interrogation one from the Minister which he Conscientiously Answers to perform the things Covenanted and the other Interrogation is of his Conscience unto God whether he will accept him if he Dedicate himself as his Faithful Servant tho a poor miserable sinner But how can these things affect Little Infants How doth it appear they have the Answer of a good Conscience in Baptism To Conclude Courteous Reader I pray grant me one request and that is That you would be pleased to take my book of Baptism and consider my Antagonist's Answer unto it I also desire you would seriously compare my Answer with his Book and I hope you will find no●hing material left unanswered tho he hath not spoken to the Matter contain'd in three pages of one Hundred Thirty and Nine of my Book of Baptism pray consider if he doth give any Answer to my Answer or whether he saith any thing to the Arguments or Argumentative part of my Books and be not put off with Shadows instead of Substance nor with a Shell instead of a Kernel for you have Reasonable Souls do not therefore suffer your selves to be imposed upon to take Brass for Gold Non-sence for Reason nor mens Inventions for Gods Institutions but like the Noble Beraeans search the Scriptures to see whether those things be so or no and believe nothing because I or any other Man saith it but because Divine Writ affirms it In so doing you shall profit your self and oblige him who wisheth you Everlasting Prosperity FINIS Advertisement CHrist alone Exalted being the compleat Works of Tobias Crisp D.D. containing XLII Sermons on several Select Texts of Scriptures Which were formerly Printed in Three small Volumes by that late Eminent and Faithful Dispenser of God's Word Who was sometime Minister at Brinkworth in Wiltshire and afterward many of the Sermons were Preached in and about London To which is added Ten Sermons whereof Eight were never before Printed faithfully transcribed from his own Notes Which is all that ever will be Printed of the said Doctor 's The Texts of Scripture of the late Addition are as follow viz. Serm. I. John xx 19 Blessed are they that ha●e not seen and yet have believed Serm. II. Rom. viij 32. He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall be not with him also freely give us all things Serm. III. IV V VI. the Matter being undivided Titus ij 11 12 For the Grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Serm. VII Amos iv 12. Because I will do this unto thee prepare thy self to meet thy God O Israel Serm. VIII Matt. xvi 24. If any man will come after me let him deny himself Serm. IX Gal. iij. 5. Wherefore then serveth the Law it was added because of transgression till the seed should come to whom the promise was made Serm. X. Mr. Brunsel's Funeral Sermon on Gal. i. 8. Mollificium Chirurgie or the Marrow of Chirurgery An Anatomical Treatise Institutions of Physick with Hippocrates's Aphorisms largely Commented upon The Marrow of Physick shewing the Causes Signs and Cures of most Diseases incident to humane Bodies Choice experienced Receipts for the Cure of several Distempers The Fourth Edition enlarged with many Additio●s and purged from many saults that escaped in the former Impressions Illustrated in its several parts with twelve Brass Cuts By James Cooke of Warwick Practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery Both Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-Street