A47591:1030
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.
CHAP. XVI.
In which it is proved, That the Children of the Faithful, as such, ought not to be baptized, because 'tis said whole Households were baptized: Being an Answer to what Mr. James Owen hath said in his 13th Chapter, and so a Confutation of his Tenth Argument for Infant Baptism.
In which it is proved, That the Children of the Faithful, as such, ought not to be baptized, because 'tis said whole Housholds were baptized: Being an Answer to what Mr. James Owen hath said in his 13th Chapter, and so a Confutation of his Tenth Argument for Infant Baptism.
MR. Owen saith, it was God's way from the beginning of the World, to receive whole Households into Covenant, the Children were received in with their Parents; even so Noah and his Family were in the same Covenant, for his sake his Family was received with him into the Ark, and were baptized with him in the Waters of the Flood: Abraham believed, and his whole Family was received into God's Covenant with him, Gen. 17. Heb. 11. 7. 1 Pet. 3. 20, 21. Not himself and his Seed, but his Men-Servants and Maid-Servants, and of the Gentiles, that were willing to receive the true Religion, and their Seed,