A47591:1079
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.
Paul you say, planted or founded Churches among the Gentiles, even in the same manner as Peter did, when the head of the Families believed he did baptize the whole Family, 1. You say, he planted the Church of the Philippians in Households, Acts 16. 14, 15. a certain Woman named Lydia which worshipped God, heard us, whose Heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things that were spoken off by Paul, and when she believed, she was baptized and all her Household. You note on this Text three things; first, that Lydia was a Proselyte before to the Jewish Religion, and the Proselytes of the Gentiles and their Children, were in God's Covenant through Baptism and Circumcision; and here you tell us the story over again of Moses the Son of Maimon, about baptizing Proselytes, that they baptized Proselytes among the Jews, by command of the Council, &c.
Paul you say, planted or founded Churches among the Gentiles, even in the same manner as Peter did, when the head of the Families believed he did baptize the whole Family, 1. You say, he planted the Church of the Philippians in Housholds, Acts 16. 14, 15. a certain Woman named Lydia which worshipped God, heard us, whose Heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things that were spoken off by Paul, and when she believed, she was baptized and all her Houshold. You note on this Text three things; first, that Lydia was a Proselyte before to the Jewish Religion, and the Proselytes of the Gentiles and their Children, were in God's Covenant through Baptism and Circumcision; and here you tell us the story over again of Moses the Son of Maimon, about baptizing Proselytes, that they baptized Proselytes among the Jews, by command of the Council, &c.
Ans. I answer, you will have I see all these to be re-baptized also; I cannot see but you are truly a grand Anabaptists in your Judgment, and such an one that I never met with before; first you intimate they were baptized by a Jewish humane Invention, and the second time baptized by virtue of Christ's command, let who will be your Proselyte, I will not; who thus contend for, and mix the Traditions of Men with Christ sacred Institutions.