A47591:1090
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. Doth it not also follow, that your ignorance of God's Covenant with Abraham is very great, for if it be as you say, then all Abraham's Seed according to the Flesh must be saved, because he as the Head of his Family believed; but doth not the Scripture say in opposition to this, that though the number of the Children of Israel be as the Sand of the Sea, yet but a Remnant shall be saved.
4. May not this Doctrine of yours also corrupt and tend to ruin many poor Souls, both Children and Servants, who live in Families where the Heads of those Families do believe, and are Godly; may not they say we shall be saved, though we believe not, because we dwell in a Family where the Head, viz. our Father, our Master doth believe; Mr. Owen assures us, we shall all be saved, because our Father or Master believes, be astonished, Oh ye Heavens! is this your proof for Infant Baptism. Worthy Britons, this may sufficiently show you that the Covenant that God made with Abraham, namely, the Covenant of Circumcision, which was made with him and his natural Seed as such, was no Covenant of Salvation, and so not the Covenant of Grace; 'tis so plain you need not doubt of it, because multitudes that were in that Covenant perished, though Circumcision was a Seal of Abraham's Faith, yet not a Seal of the Covenant of Grace to his Seed, as such, because if it were it would have Sealed to them all, the righteousness of Faith and eternal Life, which we know it never did to multitudes of them. But very remarkable 'tis, to see how Mr. Owen doth in the very next place both conhimself, and overthrow his Argument, as to the purport of it, he brings in this Objection,
4. May not this Doctrine of yours also corrupt and tend to ruine many poor Souls, both Children and Servants, who live in Families where the Heads of those Families do believe, and are Godly; may not they say we shall be saved, though we believe not, because we dwell in a Family where the Head, viz. our Father, our Master doth believe; Mr. Owen assures us, we shall all be saved, because our Father or Master believes, be astonish'd, Oh ye Heavens! is this your proof for Infant Baptism. Worthy Brittains, this may sufficiently shew you that the Covenant that God made with Abraham, namely, the Covenant of Circumsion, which was made with him and his natural Seed as such, was no Covenant of Salvation, and so not the Covenent of Grace; 'tis so plain you need not doubt of it, because multitudes that were in that Covenant perished, though Circumcision was a Seal of Abrahams Faith, yet not a Seal of the Covenant of Grace to his Seed, as such, because if it were it would have Sealed to them all, the righteousness of Faith and eternal Life, which we know it never did to multitudes of them. But very remarkable 'tis, to see how Mr. Owen doth in the very next place both conhimself, and overthrow his Argument, as to the purport of it, he brings in this Objection,