A47591:1003
Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the ancient…Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the antient…
Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the ancient Britons [sic] being an answer to a book, intituled [sic] Children's baptism from Heaven, published in the Welsh tongue by Mr. James Owen / by Benjamin Keach.Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the antient Britains [sic] being an answer to a book, iutituled [sic] Children's baptism from Heaven, published in the Welsh tongue by Mr. James Owen / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by William Marshall, 1696
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. I am troubled to see how you confound your Peoples understanding, was the Jewish Church or the Visible Church of God under the Law, and the visible Gospel Church, formally and materially one and the same.
Had the Jews a right to all Gospel Ordinances and Privileges, because they abode his legal visible Church till the Death of Christ; we grant the invisible Church of God under Law and Gospel, is but one and the same; but doth not the Gospel Church in its Ordinances, Administrations, Rights and Privileges, ⟨p. 182⟩vastly differ from the legal, was not the visible Church of God under the Law, a National Church made up of the Jewish People only, and is the Gospel Church not congregational, consisting of both Jews and Gentiles that believe, or are born of the Spirit.
Had the Jews a right to all Gospel Ordinances and Privileges, because they abode his legal visible Church till the Death of Christ; we grant the invisible Church of God under Law and Gospel, is but one and the same; but doth not the Gospel Church in its Ordinances, Administrations, Rights and Piviledges, ⟨p. 182⟩vastly differ from the legal, was not the visible Church of God under the Law, a National Church made up of the Jewish People only, and is the Gospel Church not congregational, consisting of both Jews and Gentiles that believe, or are born of the Spirit.
5. What, though John did not make void the Covenant of peculiarity God made with Abraham, yet he laid the Axe at the Root; and being to prepare matter for a new Church State, and his Ministry being Gospel, and the Ordinance he administered a Gospel Institution, he told the Jews and Pharisees, that their being Abraham's Seed, or having Abraham to their Father now, was no good Plea or Argument for them to plead, as a right to this new Administration. John's Doctrine did in part, finish the Law and the Prophets, or old covenant Dispensation, though the full period of it was not come till the death of Christ.