A47591:1103
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.
Ans. It appears, you question whether the Goaler had any Children or not, beside you tell us, that whole Households comprehend the Adult only some times; from whence I infer according to the Scripture, whole Households may be said to be baptized, when none but the Adult in those Households are baptized.
Ans. It appears, you question whether the Goaler had any Children or not, beside you tell us, that whole Housholds comprehend the Adult only some times; from whence I infer according to the Scripture, whole Housholds may be said to be baptized, when none but the Adult in those Housholds are baptized.
2. If the Apostles offering Salvation to People, gives them a right to Baptism, then all the World may be baptized, because all the World ought to have Salvation offered to them, go into all the World and preach the Gospel to every Creature, Mark 16. 15. but this offer gives none a right to Baptism simply in it self; no none but such that believe as the next Words prove, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, verse 16. they must first believe or be made Disciples, and then be baptized, the Parents must believe, and the Children must first believe, not the Parents for the Children, but the Children must believe for themselves, before they ought to be baptized, according to the Commission, and the nature of the Administration of Gospel Baptism.
3. 'Tis strange the Apostles should preach to little Children, o•er Christ to them, what preach Christ to the Infant in the Cradle? that knows not its right Hand from it, •t.