A47591:1046
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 this hath teaching in it, and shows the Sent of the Apostle Peter's Words very fully no doubt. ut to tell the World, because God saved, and covenanted with Noah's Family; therefore God takes whole Families in Gospel times into Covenant, argues great darkness.
Now this hath teaching in it, and shews the Sente of the Apostle Peter's Words very fully no doubt. ut to tell the World, because God saved, and covenanted with Noah's Family; therefore God takes whole Families in Gospel times into Covenant, argues great darkness.
2. As to Abraham's Family, we deny not but his Family was taken into Covenant with God, even his natural Seed as such, but it was a covenant of peculiarity; for simply considered, as a Family they were not taken into the Covenant of Grace; because there where some godly Families that had no lot or part in that Covenant, but we having fully opened the twofold Covenant God made with Abraham at the beginning; I shall not renew the Argument again.
But worthy Britons, let this be well considered by you, that as Noah's Family and Abraham's Family were taken into Covenant with God and other, whole Households under the Law, and the whole House and Nation of Israel, so they were Types of the Gospel Church, even as the whole House or Family of Abraham, (or whole House and Family of Israel were typically relatively and federally holy;) it did prefigure that true spiritual Holiness, that in Gospel times should be in all the members of the true Gospel Church, and not of God's taking under the Gospel whole Families into Covenant with himself, either into an outward external Covenant, or into a spiritual or new Covenant relation with himself.
But worthy Brittains, let this be well considered by you, that as Noah's Family and Abraham's Family were taken into Covenant with God and other, whole Housholds under the Law, and the whole House and Nation of Israel, so they were Types of the Gospel Church, even as the whole House or Family of Abraham, (or whole House and Family of Israel were typically relatively and federally holy;) it did prefigure that true spiritual Holiness, that in Gospel times should be in all the members of the true Gospel Church, and not of God's taking under the Gospel whole Families into Covenant with himself, either into an outward external Covenant, or into a spiritual or new Covenant relation with himself.