A47591:1048
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.
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.
'Tis true, God perhaps hath sometimes called whole Families, both Parents, Children and Servants, and converted them all; but alas, how many Families are there, where may be, but one is called, and in sacred Covenant with God, may be the Husband and not the Wife, the Wife and not the Husband, the Child, and not either of the Parents are so called and taken into Covenant with God. Pray worthy Britons, consider well what God speaks of his Promise under the Gospel. I will take one of a City, and two of a Family, and will bring you to Zion. Jer. 3. 14. Not in Gospel times whole Families, no no, this God may do, but 'tis more then he hath promised; or as to matter of Fact is so; he doth frequently speak in another ⟨p. 193⟩