A47591:1077
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, 'tis a great abuse of the sacred History, to say Peter founded the Christian Churches in particular Households, for the first Church consisted of Three Thousand, and there is no mention made of any particular Household; but perhaps two of a City, and one of a Family, as God promised, were at that time brought into God's Gospel Zion; also here were many gathered together at Cornelius's House, as appears Verse 33.
Ans. I answer, 'tis a great abuse of the sacred History, to say Peter founded the Christian Churches in particular Housholds, for the first Church consisted of Three Thousand, and there is no mention made of any particular Houshold; but perhaps two of a City, and one of a Family, as God promised, were at that time brought into God's Gospel Sion; also here were many gathered together at Cornelius's House, as appears Verse 33.
2. Why, do you not distinguish between the Covenant made with Abraham's natural Seed, as such, and the Covenant of Grace God made with him, &c. you think that those blind and unbelieving circumcised Proselytes were as truly in the covenant of Grace, even in the same covenant God made with Abraham's spiritual Seed, as Cornelius was after he believed in God and Jesus Christ; why then doth Paul say, and if you be Christs, then are you Abraham's Seed and Heirs according to the promise, Gal. 3. 29. besides the Covenant of peculiarity made with Abraham's natural Seed, as such did not entitle the Proselyte stranger to the inheritance ⟨p. 200⟩of the Land of Canaar. Oh! that the Lord would take this Veil from off your Eyes, every Soul must reckon from Christ, not from being Abraham's natural Seed, that would be one of Abraham's spiritual Seed, and an Heir according to the Promise.
2. Why, do you not distinguish between the Covenant made with Abraham's natural Seed, as such, and the Covenant of Grace God made with him, &c. you think that those blind and unbelieving circumcised Proselytes were as truly in the covenant of Grace, even in the same covenant God made with Abraham's spiritual Seed, as Cornelius was after he believed in God and Jesus Christ; why then doth Paul say, and if you be Christs, then are you Abrahams Seed and Heirs according to the promise,