A47591:1051
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.
In the Covenant of Circumcision that appertained to all Abraham's natural Seed, were many external Privileges and Promises made, of which Circumcision was given as a Sign or Token, as particularly the Land of Canaan, &c.
In the Covenant of Circumcision that appertained to all Abraham's natural Seed, were many external Priviledges and Promises made, of which Circumsion was given as a Sign or Token, as particularly the Land of Canaan, &c.
But what Privileges and Promises hath God granted to Believers Children, as such, in Gospel times which Baptism gives them an assurance of; the sign is nothing without the substance or thing signified; Believers have the substance or the things signified in Baptism, so have not Infants in their pretended Baptism, nor many of them ever after.
But what Priviledges and Promises hath God granted to Believers Children, as such, in Gospel times which Baptism gives them an assurance of; the sign is nothing without the substance or thing signified; Believers have the substance or the things signified in Baptism, so have not Infants in their pretended Baptism, nor many of them ever after.
4. Whereas you call for a plain Scripture to prove that the Children of the Faithful are rent from the Head of the Family; you mistake the Business; you must prove that in the Gospel Dispensation, Children and Servants, or whole Households are taken with the Heads of those Households into Covenant with God: What whole Nation is taken into Covenant with God, as the whole House or Nation of Israel was under the Law; prove, that there is such a Nation, and we will grant, that all the Families in that Nation, are also in Covenant, for in that universal Family all particular Families must needs be comprehended.