A47591:1097
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.
2. But what you speak in the next place is not true, viz. that Parents and their Children, and Bond Servants, and their Children, were under the Law, and under the Gospel times; also in the Covenant of Grace, through the Faith of their Parents: For notwithstanding the Bond-men and their Male Children were commanded to be Circumcised that were in Abraham's Family, and that were as Proselytes received into other Families of the Jews under the Law, yet they were not Heirs of the Land of Canaan; none but the natural Seed of Abraham could have any possession therein, according to that Covenant of peculiarity God made with the fleshy Seed of Abraham as such, which typified forth that none but Believers, or the elect of God, who are the true Spiritual Seed of Abraham, were the true Heirs of the Promise, and of the Heavenly Canaan; will you say that all the natural Seed of Abraham and Bond-Men and their Children as such, and also all the natural Seed of Believers as such, are the true Spiritual Seed of Abraham; sure God will take of this Veil from your Eyes, and open your understanding if you look to him by Prayer, and search the Scripture with a candid desire after the knowledge of this matter.
2. But what you speak in the next place is not true, viz. that Parents and their Children, and Bond Servants, and their Children, were under the Law, and under the Gospel times; also in the Covenant of Grace, through the Faith of their Parents: For notwithstanding the Bond-men and their Male Children were commanded to be Circumcised that were in Abraham's Family, and that were as Proselytes received into other Families of the Jews under the Law, yet they were not Heirs of the Land of Canaan; none but the natural Seed of Abraham could haue any possession therein, according to that Covenant of peculiarality God made with the fleshy Seed of Abraham as such, which typified forth that none but Believers, or the elect of God, who are the true Spiritual Seed of Abraham, were the true Heirs of the Promise, and of the Heavenly Canaan; will you say that all the natural Seed of Abraham and Bond-Men and their Children as such, and also all the natural Seed of Believers as such, are the true Spiritual Seed of Abraham; sure God will take of this Vail from your Eyes, and open your understanding if you look to him by Prayer, and search the Scripture with a canded desire after the knowledge of this matter.