A47591:1070
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.
3. the promise here meant, and the duty of being baptized are as you say of the same Latitude; thus you argue, viz. be baptized you and your Children, for the promise is unto you and to your Children, we so are to understand the Words; the Promise, and the Duty, being of the same Latitude, if the Promise belongeth unto them and their Children, then bap•••••
Ans. I answer, what is the promise but the Holy-Ghost and eternal Life, and such that receive this Promise, viz. the holy Spirit as an earnest of eternal Life, we deny not are to be baptized, and if no Child hath any other right to the Duty, but such who have received the same Promise through Faith, ziz. remission of Sin, and of the Holy Spirit, then no Children but such that repent and believe ought to be baptized, seeing the Promise and Duty runs to the Children or Off-spring as it runs to the Parents.
In the same manner, you say, when Peter planted the first Church among the Gentiles, as might be gathered from the words of the Angel to Cornelius, being the first Fruits of the Church of the Gentiles, Acts 11. 13. send Men to Joppa and call for Simon, whose Sir-name is Peter, who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy House shall be saved; the Gospel bringeth Salvation to him and to all his House; Cornelius well knew the meaning of the Words, for he being a proselyte to the true Religion before that time, though uncircumcised, yet received the severe Commandment of Noah, the substance of which might be seen, Gen. 9. 1. God's Covenant was with Noah and his Seed, &c.
In the same manner, you say, when Peter planted the first Church among the Gentiles, as might be gathered from the words of the Angel to Cornelius, being the first Fruits of the Church of the Gentiles,