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A60172 A replication to a late book written by Mr. Benjamin Keach against infants-baptism intituled A counter-antidote, &c. By Gyles Shute of Lime-house. Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51. 1694 (1694) Wing S3712; ESTC R221469 41,869 83

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his Book of Election But seeing they are all called holy Children without exception our Duty is to hope well of them all and dedicate them all unto God in the Ordinance of Baptism and believe and pray for them all as if they were all Elected and we did know it as long as we do not know any thing to the contrary But God hath put all the Infant-Seed of Believers in their Infancy now under the Gospel into the Ballance alike with a respect to their Parents knowledge as if they were Elected in the 1 Cor. 7.14 Thus I have proved splendently That the Infant-Seed of Believers are in Covenant and are the proper Subjects of Baptism not excluding Adult Proselytes By which I have fully Answered all the Arguments that ever were raised against it and also Mr. B. K's Book in particular as much as if I had confuted them Argument by Argument V. And Lastly Mr. B. K. hath laboured hard to prove That the Church State under the Law was only a Carnal Legal Church State and that it was dissolved at the Coming of Christ in the Flesh And one of his Topping Arguments to prove it to be so is That they were a Natural Church and the Churches under the Gospel are congregational Therefore my business is to prove the contrary and I shall pursue this Method viz. 1. I shall prove that the Church is of the same Form and Mettle substantially now as it was under the Law 2. That there are the same sort of Members both for Age and Sects 3. And Lastly The Church lives and feeds upon the same spiritual Food now as the Church did under the Law 1. That the Church is of the same Form and Mettle I shall prove first out the Old Testament Zech. 4. And the angel that talked with me came again and waked me as a man that is wakened out of his sleep And said unto me What seest thou And I said I have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold c. Secondly the New Testament Rev. 1.20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the seven golden candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches Candlesticks are to set up a Light in and they are of the same Mettle viz. Golden Candlesticks What though there was but one under the Law and that was National and now several and they congregational yet the Form Use and Mettle is the same Suppose a Man hath a Tree in his Orchard that hath but one Branch upon it and that is decaying and he cuts that off and graffs several Branches upon the same Stock that doth not destroy the Root or Stock of the Tree Rom. 11.16 For if the first-frruit be holy the lump is also holy and if the root be holy so are the branches The Church-State under the Law was the same as it was in Abraham's Time which was 430 Years before the Law of Moses and it is the same as it was in Adam's Time Gen. 3.15 On this Promise the Foundation or Church-State was laid and as it was in the Beginning so it is now and ever will be to the Worlds End But saith Mr. K. in pag. 9. I also ask you whether the Jewish Church that was sounded upon the Old Covenant is not gone and dissolved If so what doth your arguing prove I Answer The Jewish Church-State was founded on the Covenant of Grace call it what Covenant you please for Abraham had the Gospel preached unto him when God established the Covenant with him Gal. 3.8 And so had Adam Gen. 3.15 And Noah was a Gospel Preacher 2 Pet. 2.5 And the Church-State is the same now as it was before the Dispensation of the Gospel 1. By the Words of our Saviour himself Mat. 21. Therefore I say unto you The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruit thereof Now if this Kingdom of God was not the Church-State in which all the Jews then were pray tell us what Kingdom of God this was 1. It appears that this Kingdom of God was the Church Militant and not the Church Triumphant 2. That the Church State was mutable and yet indissolvable God might remove it from one Nation to another as he did from the unbelieving Jews unto the believing Gentiles Mat. 21.43 Rom. 11.17 But the State of the Church is the same and is unalterable 3. There were the seven Churches of Asia dissolved but that did not destroy the Church State no more than the Excommunicating Members out of a particular Church doth 2. The Apostle makes it appear plainly that the Church State is the same now as ever it was before the Incarnation of Christ in Eph. 2. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and forreigners but fellow-citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord In whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit Now pray Mr. K. what do you think Was the State of the Jews Church a carnal legal Church State Whereas you hear it was a Habitation for God through the Spirit and Jesus Christ the chief corner Stone Did God dwell in a carnal Church Or was Christ ever the Foundation of a carnal Church Which must necessarily follow as the consequence of this carnal Position 3. In pag. 43. saith Mr. K. I ask whether or no Christ did not remove by the Gospel Dispensation all the Wheat out of the old Barn nay and pull down that Barn c. Christ did not pull down that Barn but he purged the Floor of it neither did he remove the Wheat out of it but he did winnow and fan away all the chaffy Hypocrites the unbelieving Jews and gathered his Elect Gentile-wheat into his Garner Kingdom or Church and John the Baptist's Testimony is sufficient to prove this let any Man deny this if they dare Mat. 3. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but he that cometh after me is mightier then I whose shoes I am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire Whose san is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor and gather his wheat into the garner but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire Here are Two Things to be observed from this Text The Firist is A threatning the Expulsion of the unbelieving Jews and the Second A Prediction of the calling and conversion of the Elect Gentiles which was the taking the Kingdom of God from the Jews and giving it to the Gentiles 2. The Church is the same now in a sense as it was under the Law with a respect to the Members of it for as the Jews and their children were the Members of it under the Law so Believers