A47591:1027
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.
From hence it appears, That it is no ground for Mr. Owen to affirm, that by all Jerusalem, and all Judea, &c. must be intended every individual Person, both Men, Women, and Children; but rather, some of all Sorts, ⟨p. 187⟩Degrees, Sexes, &c. It shows, that Multitudes went to hear him, and many were baptized by him in Jordan, confessing their Sins with unfeigned Repentance.
From hence it appears, That it is no ground for Mr. Owen to affirm, that by all Jerusalem, and all Judea, &c. must be intended every individual Person, both Men, Women, and Children; but rather, some of all Sorts, ⟨p. 187⟩Degrees, Sexes, &c. It shews, that Multitudes went to hear him, and many were baptized by him in Jordan, confessing their Sins with unfeigned Repentance.
But (you say) the Text doth not tell us what manner of Confession this was, whether in Words or Works: Their submission to Baptism, was an actual Confession of their Uncleanness, and that they stood in need of Washing, it cannot be thought that it was a Confession in Words; because one Man could not receive a particular Confession from the whole Country if they made a Confession in Words: It is like one made it in the Names of others, even as the Priests did in the Names of all the People, Levit. 16. 21. Thus the Parents might confess their Sins for themselves and their Children, &c.
1. Ans. Let Mr. Baxter's Arguments serve to confute you here; he tells you, That from Scripture and the universal Practice of the ancient Church, That Faith, and a Confession of Faith, yea a verbal Confession, was required of all that were baptized; With the heart man believeth, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation,