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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.
They are all born of God, and Heirs as Isaac was, they are all chosen from Everlasting to Salvation, they are all given to Christ, and all Members of his mystical Body, or are but one mystical Christ, and are even Flesh of his Flesh, and Bone of his Bone, and therefore this Covenant and free promise of God, cannot appertain to Abraham's natural Seed as such, nor to the natural Seed of Believers as such, for alas! how many of them do perish eternally? For though the number of the Children of Israel be as the Sands of the Sea, yet but a remnant of them shall be saved, as was hinted before.
They are all born of God, and Heirs as Isaac was, they are all chosen from Everlasting to Salvation, they are all given to Christ, and all Members of his mystical Body, or are but one mystical Christ, and are even Flesh of his Flesh, and Bone of his Bone, and therefore this Covenant and free promise of God, cannot appertain to Abraham's natural Seed as such, nor to the natural Seed of Believers as such, for alass! how many of them do perish eternally? For though the number of the Children of Israel be as the Sands of the Sea, yet but a remnant of them shall be saved, as was hinted before.
But say you, if the keeper of the Prison had no Children, or if they were the adult, it is the same thing, the Apostle offereth Salvation to him and to ⟨p. 206⟩his Household, even to little Children, if there were such with him, and that is sufficient to confirm the present matter, i. e. that by this Household, we are to understand principally his Children, as the word frequently is taken in Scripture, Gen. 30. 30. and 45. 19. Num. 3. 15. 1 Tim. 5. 8.