A47591:1049
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.
'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⟩I may speak here as the Apostles speaks in another Case, you see your calling Brethren, how not many whole Families are called.
'Tis true, God perhaps hath sometimes called whole Families, both Parents, Children and Servants, and converted them all; but alass, 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 Brittains, 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⟩I may speak here as the Apostles speaks in another Case, you see your calling Brethren, how not many whole Families are called.
3. Because God made a Covenant with Abraham, and his natural Seed, as such, as a Covenant of peculiarity, and also with him made or renewed the Covenant of Grace, setting him up as a covenanting Head on a double respect; doth it follow, that every believing Man is set or placed by the Lord, as a like Covenant head to all his natural Off-spring: Till Mr. Owen hath proved this, he saith nothing to the purpose.