A47591:1093
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.
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I answer, (saith he) so were the adult; the whole House sometimes signifies those of the adult in a Family, it is said of Sampson, that all his Fathers House buried him, that is (saith he) those that were of age in his Fathers House, for the little Children could not go into the Land of the Philistines to bury his Body, &c. It is said (saith he) of Cornelius that he was a devout Man, fearing God with all his House, that is, all the adult in his Household, so the Goaler believed with all his Household, viz. all that were of age to believe. 2. And we are not to think (saith Mr. Owen) all these Households to be barren, which were baptized by the Apostles; there were not many Households in those Ages, without Children in them, for the greatest part of their Riches was their Bond Servants, and the Children born of them, and those Children were in God's Covenant, even as free-born Children, Gen. 17. 13, 23. so are they also under the Gospel, they are Abraham's Seed through the Faith of their Parents and Heirs as before, Col. 1. 12. Gal. 3. 29.
I answer, (saith he) so were the adult; the whole House sometimes signifies those of the adult in a Family, it is said of Sampson, that all his Fathers House buried him, that is (saith he) those that were of age in his Fathers House, for the little Children could not go into the Land of the Philistines to bury his Body, &c. It is said (saith he) of Cornelius that he was a devout Man, fearing God with all his House, that is, all the adult in his Houshold, so the Goaler believed with all his Houshold, viz. all that were of age to believe. 2. And we are not to think (saith Mr. Owen) all these Housholds to be barren, which were baptized by the Apostles; there were not many Housholds in those Ages, without Children in them, for the greatest part of their Riches was their Bond Servants, and the Children born of them, and those Children were in God's Covenant, even as free-born Children,