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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.
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.
5. What, though John did not make void the Covenant of peculiarity God made with Abraham, yet he laid the Ax at the Root; and being to prepare matter for a new Church State, and his Ministry being Gospel, and the Ordinance he administred 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.
Hence our Saviour saith, the Law and the Prophets were until John, and from that time, the Kingdom of Heaven began to suffer Violence, and Men strove to press into it, though its full and perfect beginning was not till our Lord had broken down the middle wall of Partition, and nailed the legal Rites and carnal Ordinances to his Cross, and removed that enmity between Jews and Gentiles, making both one new Man, and so a new Gospel Church; pray take what one of your own Brethren, a Pedo-Baptist saith, of John's Ministration, it is Reverend Cotton of New-England.
Hence our Saviour saith, the Law and the Prophets were untill John, and from that time, the Kingdom of Heaven began to suffer Violence, and Men strove to press into it, though its full and perfect beginning was not till our Lord had broken down the middle wall of Partition, and nail'd the legal Rites and carnal Ordinances to his Cross, and removed that enmity between Jews and Gentiles, making both one new Man, and so a new Gospel Church; pray take what one of your own Brethren, a Pedo-Baptist saith, of John's Ministration, it is Reverend Cotton of New-England.