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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

are taught of God have the answer of a good Conscience professedly they would have a Right to the Ordinance of Baptism but this Logick will never pass the Schools My Child shall be heir to my Inheritannce ergo he is capable of understanding the signing and sealing of it at eight days old had you said he had been capable of understanding the sealing this Estate over unto him at One and Twenty it had carried more of Truth and Reason in it Why are Children denyed the Lords supper if fit for baptism what are Children believers and kept from the Lord's Table do we ever read it was denied to a true Believer what are Children New Creatures Regenerated Born again and deny them the Elements of Bread and Wine Oh! hard Father of Infants Men as wise as your self gave Infants the Eucharist for several hundred years from some of your own Topicks and will you deny it them all your long harangue about Infants being capable of one Ordinance and not of another is but wind will you say in the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper there must be inherent Grace and also Grace exercised but a state of Grace tho not exercised say you is sufficient for Baptism But how doth this Gentleman know Infants are in a state of Grace to qualifie them for Baptism the word doth not help him here and if he conclude so from Charity then there is the same reason to have the same Charity for Children of Unbelievers and more too some times because the Believers Child often falls from a pretended Covenant State Faith Inherent Holiness New Birth Regeneration when the Unbelievers Child abides in all Truly But how comes this Gentleman so bold as to Assert and Print That Actual Grace is not necessary to Baptism Did not Philip call for Actual Grace of the Eunuch before Baptism If thou Believest thou mayest How then can Persons be wholly Passive in Baptism Did the Eunuch go down into the Water and come up out of the Water Did Christ go almost Forty Miles to be Baptised and did it as an Act of Righteousness and yet wholly Passive If you can shew me another Bible where Christ since hath said Persons need not Actual Faith and are wholly Passive in Baptism I may change my mind Whereas he doth Magnify the Lord's Supper so much above Baptism I do Assert what ever is Sealed to a Believer in one Ordinance is Sealed to him in another nay there is more particular words of Incouragement added unto Baptism than to the other 'T is true 't is all comprehended in this This is my Body broken for you and my Blood shed for the Remission of your Sins but for Baptism in Acts 2. you have the promise of Remission of Sins and gift of the Holy Ghost In Acts 22. 't is said to Wash away Sins Symbolically Mark 16. Salvation is annexed unto Faith and Baptism the Lord's Supper was never so Dignified as Baptism by the Procession of the Holy Ghost and it is a Symbol of Regeneration and Justification Rom. 6. Do I see my Sins Pardoned my Person Justified God Reconciled my Person Sanctified Heaven assured at the Lord's Supper I behold the same in Baptism there I see my Sins Buried in his Grave as in the other Nailed to his Cross here I behold my Soul Washed in his Blood Justified by his Righteousness Saved by his Death and is not this a Marriage Feast And ought I not to have the Wedding Garment now as at the Table of the Lord BUT this Gentleman tells me I have Written several strange Positions I am not ashamed the World should see them You must know one of the first Arguments of the Church of Rome for Infants Baptism is That it Washt away Origional Sin Now because I say in opposition to that we know a better way to Wash away Original Sin namely The Imputation of Christ's Righteousness This is one of my strange Positions But pray which is most strange this or the applying all those Texts which speak of Regenerated Men and Women unto little Infants and what they speak of the necessity of Faith in them to apply it unto Babes who neither know Good nor Evil. 2dly ANOTHER strange Position is because I say That as Circumcision was the Door into the Jewish Church which was National so Baptism is the Door into the Gospel Church which is Congregational Now this being true in his own Opinion why should it be a strange Position Why Because I will not allow it came in the room of Circumcision Cannot I make two Doors to my House but one must be a Type of another Or rather Cannot I pull down my Old House and Build a New but my Door of my First House must be a Type of the Door of my last The Door of God's Gospel-House is larger than the Door of his Legal House that Door was only large enough for the Jews and few poor Proselyted Gentiles but the Gospel Door entertains all commers Jews Gentiles Barbarians Sythians So that the First Door could not be an Exemplar or Type of the Last Then only Males were Circumcised now Males and Females Believing may be Baptised therefore Circumcision could not be the shadow of Baptism the Subjects that enter the Door are not the same one are Ignorant Infants the other Persons of Understanding Under the Law the Subjects were wholly Passive but now Church Members must be Active in the Operations and Acts of Repentance and Faith not only those called Conformists but the Non-Conformists also have lost the Door and the Subject that should enter the Door for here are they wholly Passive when they should be Active so that the very Essence of the Ordinance is lost here is neither right Form nor right Subject and what are they that enter not in by the Door but climb up and come in some other way into the House READER consider whether this saying of mine be so strange as his which he hath put in two Mercuries shewing I was not the Author of his Book which I would not have been for the World He tells the People I was never guilty in Writing nor Preaching of any such Extensive Evangelical Truths Is not this a piece of Arrogance with a witness How hath he exposed his Profession and Name to the World besides he knows not what my Preaching is nor hath Read I suppose a third of what is written so that he speaks in the dark And whereas he saith I never was guilty of Writing or Preaching such things I hope I never shall Again Is not that a strange Position of his page 25. Because I say John Baptist required Matt. 3. of the Pharises and Sadduces Repentance from dead Works in order to qualifie them for Baptism and Gospel Church Membership every Tree saith the Text that brings not forth good Fruit is hewen down and cast into the Fire HE from hence concludes and tells the World that my judgment is That little Infants because

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