A47591:1037
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.
Now to what purpose do you mention this Covenant, or the temporal Salvation of Noah's Family in the Ark? May be Noah's Family, or some of them, were saved with that external Salvation for his sake; yet this proves not that his Faith extended to the Spiritual Salvation of the Souls of his Children, for he had a cursed Ham to one of his Sons, his Faith could not save him.
Now to what purpose do you mention this Covenant, or the temporal Salvation of Noah's Family in the Ark? May be Noah's Family, or some of them, were saved with that external Salvation for his sake; yet this proves not that his Faith extended to the Spiritual Salvation of the Souls of his Children, for he had a cursed Cham to one of his Sons, his Faith could not save him.
2. As to the Ark being a Type of Baptism, or that his Family were baptized in the Ark, this, as I have once before told you, doth as much tend to prove that all the World may be baptized, even the good, and bad, and Cattle also, as any in particular; for all, in the Ark, were as truly baptized, as any that were in it.
3. Had you said Noah's Family was a Type of the Gospel-Church, you had spoken something to the purpose; for so Expositors intimate, and not without good Reason. And,