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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

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 HERCVLES COLLINS of Wappin LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-Street where is to be Sold Mr Knowles's Exposition on the whole book of the Revelation price bound 2 s. 6 d. And Mr. Bunyan's Works in Folio price bound 14 s. And Mr. Claridges Looking Glass for Princes price bound 6 d And likewise most of Dr. Owen's and Mr. Beverley's Works MDCXCIII THE Preface to the Unbyas'd Reader WE live in a divided and opinionative Age and mens sentiments of things for the most part being as various as their Complexions Books have their Dooms according to the different apprehensions of their Readers Some Tracts have been applauded more for the Name of the Writers or Opinion they espouse than for any substantial Worth to be found in them Other are too often rejected and decry'd because their Authors are not of their Perswasion tho they have Plain Scripture the most Authentick Evidence for any Gospel-Doctrine or Practise to plead for them Some are the better treated for their Learned and Polite Styles tho they want that which should give them just recommendation namely Truth while Other which have it on their side meet with hard usage and that which is to be lamented from Good Men too because not set off with those Artificial Embellishments which gain so fast upon a Fanciful Generation that Rhetorical Paint passeth for true Beauty But if thou art such an One as the Preface calls thee an Unbyast Reader One who art fully and solely for God not regarding the Names or Writings of Men any further than they accord with the Revealed word of God if thou art free to receive Truth for its own sake and resolvest to hearken only to him that speaketh from Heaven then may it he hoped this Vindication of Believers Baptism will find a cordial Welcome with thee Thou canst not if thou hast read any thing be wholly a stranger to the Controversy about the Proper Subjects and Right Administration of Baptism between those that are for Sprinkling or Pouring of Water upon Infants and those that Dip or Plunge under Water the whole Body of Professing Believers only I do confess on the one hand 't is sad to consider what strife there is for Victory but on the other I rejoyce to see Christ and his Truth Triumph as they do in Believers Baptism Great has been the Opposition made against this Holy Ordinance but greater has been the Defence of it Every Age hath afforded some Testimonies for this Truth but now we are incompassed with a Cloud of VVitnesses Never was any Point more fully prov'd or better clear'd than this has been That one would think our Opposites should either alter their mistaken Practice or be wholly silent But since they still go on in their Error and cease not to argue against this Ordinance 't is necessary it should be guarded from the Attempts of its Assailants The worthy Author of the ensuing Discourse has Travelled formerly with good success in this Field of Controversy and now with no less against him who calls his Book An Antidote to prevent the Prevalency of Anabaptism c. Here thou hast the Cavils and Objections of the Adversary answer'd Infants or little Children prov'd to have no Habitual Faith the dissolution of the Old Covenant-State demonstrated and the Infants of Believers to have no Right as the Seed of such to Holy Baptism In a word the Antidote is throughly examined and proved to be a Counterfeit I shall add no more but my hearty recommendation of this Book to thy Reading desiring of the Lord that thou mayst so Read as to Understand and so Understand that thou mayst Practice London 20th of the 5th Month 1693. Thy Souls well wisher in the Lord our Righteousness Richard Claridge A Plain and Impartial Inquiry into the Antidote and upon Examination found a Counterfeit COULD any have expected less then that this Gentleman's Book in the Body of it should have answered the Title-Page namely Infant-Baptism Vindicated which indeed proves nothing but a Bravado and flourish for if it be Vindicated it must be either because Christ commanded it or some of his Apostles practised it some commended for its Observation or others reproved for its Neglect but not one word of all this appears in his whole Discourse Then how can Infant-Baptism be Vindicated Also he comes as short in the other part of the Title An Antidote to prevent the spreading of Anabaptism he means Believers Baptism Can he stop the course of the Sun the ebbing and flowing of the Water Can he number the Clouds and Stars or weigh the Wind and the Fire or the great Mountains Then he may answer his Title What! is this Man resolved to set himself in a posture of War against God and his Word Doth he think in this to prosper Will he endeavour to prevent the spreading of that which our Lord Jesus Christ hath given his Ministers in Commission to spread He seems to be grieved at our Translation of a Book concerning Baptism from English into Welch but if this be to be Vile we shall be more Vile What can be expected when a Man shall be an Advocate against the Truth HE tel's us of some few Reflections upon some remarkable Passages in a Book of H. C. of Wapping What should be the Reason this Gentleman did not answer that Book He hath not said any thing to the Argument of it but pickt a little here and a little there which he thought he could deal withal but the Argument of the Book is untoucht He calls them a few Reflections he may well call them a few for in 139 Pages he hath not spoken to as much Matter as Three Pages contain As for Argument in his Book it is so little that I was dead to the answering of it a long time not fearing his making many Proselytes to Pedo-baptism nor hinder the spreading of the Truth tho he did his Endeavour but the Book being so full of Scurrility base and abusive Language and he being as it is to be feared blinded with Prejudice when he wrote it could not see his Evil therefore these few Lines are intended in the room of an Oculist to open his Eyes to behold his Error in Judgment and Practice before he leaves the World I have in my Book laid down several Arguments to prove the right Mode or Manner of the Administration of Baptism to be by Dipping not Sprinkling and that the Subjects are to be Vnderstanding Believers not Ignorant Infants I have spoken to above 20 Objections but he doth not pretend to give the least Answer to either what should be the Reason that he did not take Paragraph by Paragraph and answer it fairly like a man of Sence and Reason Some are ready to argue thus and they