A47591:1057
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.
Ans. I answer, your own explanation of this Text overthrows all you strive to prove, were it but considered.
1. For you grant he was not one of the natural Seed of Abraham; now we say, that all that do believe are the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, and so such to whom the Covenant of Grace, God made with Abraham, (and consequently eternal Life) doth belong; for the true Spiritual Seed of Abraham cannot miss of eternal Salvation, the promise is sure to all the Seed, Rom. 4. 16. Now then if your Eyes were opened, you might ⟨p. 195⟩quickly see that Abraham was a two-fold Father, and that he had a two-fold Seed; you know that all Abraham's natural Seed, and the natural Seed of Believers, are not the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, nor have the promise of Salvation sure to them.
1. For you grant he was not one of the natural Seed of Abraham; now we say, that all that do believe are the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, and so such to whom the Covenant of Grace, God made with Abraham, (and consequently eternal Life) doth belong; for the true Spiritual Seed of Abraham cannot miss of eternal Salvation, the promise is sure to all the Seed, Rom. 4. 16. Now then if your Eyes were opened, you might ⟨p. 195⟩quickly see that Abraham was a two-fold Father, and that he had a two-fold Seed; you know that all Abrahams natural Seed, and the natural Seed of Believers, are not the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, nor have the promise of Salvation sure to them.