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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.
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.
Who speaking of this Text, Mat. 3. 10. Now also the Axe is laid to the Root of the Trees. The first (saith he) is the Root of Abraham's Covenant, which these People trusted upon, and of that it is which John the Baptist speaketh, now is the Axe laid to the Root of the Trees; think not to say within your Selves, we have Abraham to our Father, so that all their Confidence that they had in Abraham's Covenant, Temple and Tabernacle and such things, are burnt up, and so they have no Root left them to stand upon, and this is one thing intended by the Root. Again he saith, the Lord hath cut us off from hope, in the righteousness of our Parents, and from boasting of Ordinances; again saith he, this we read of, Mal. 4. 1. it is spoken of the ministry of John the Baptist, which ⟨p. 183⟩