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…

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, Rom. 10. 10.

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 requirad oi all that were baptized; With the heart man believeth, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation, Rom. 10. 10.

2. Certainly you are strangely left to blindness of Mind about this Matter: Did ever any Man, except your self, and one Mr. Excel, whom I answered lately, affirm, That all ungodly and unbelieving Men and Women, that were willing to be baptized, were proper and fit Subjects of Sacred Baptism? For all Men may see, that this Argument of yours is for their Baptism, and as forcible to prove they ought to be baptized, as 'tis to prove the Baptism of Infants: For, if John baptized all the whole Country, even every individual Person, then Ministers now may baptise all in all Nations, even all the World, let them be what they will, Turks, Pagans, Infidels, Swearers, Drunkards, and Idolaters, Thieves, Murderers, if they will but promise to turn from their Sins and repent, whether they do it or no, yet, if your Argument be good, they ought to be baptized: But how contrary to this is that which all your Brethren generally assert? viz. That in the Primitive Times, when the Gospel was first preached and? Churches planted, all that were first baptized were Believers, Saints, and godly Persons, and upon their Faith their Children were (as they say) baptized