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…

You proceed and say, the Apostle planted the Church of the Corinthians by baptizing whole Households, 1 Cor. 1. 16, 17. as the House of Stephanas and Crispus, and the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul at Corinth, and accused him that he persuaded Men to worship God contrary to the Law, verse 13. by how much the more would they have accused him, then (say you) for casting out their Children from the Covenant of Abraham if he had so done, &c.

You proceed and say, the Apostle planted the Church of the Corinthians by baptizing whole Housholds, 1 Cor. 1. 16, 17. as the House of Stephanas and Crispus, and the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul at Corinth, and accused him that he perswaded Men to worship God contrary to the Law, verse 13. by how much the more would they have accused him, then (say you) for casting out their Children from the Covenant of Abraham if he had so done, &c.

Ans. I answer, how do you know but that might be one thing which they charged upon him, no doubt Paul according as John Baptist did, did declare, that their being the Children of Abraham according to the Flesh as such, now availed them nothing; he 'tis plain denied their Children's right to Circumcision, to give them a right to Baptism; he received none of them to Baptism who professed not their Faith in Christ, the Covenant of peculiarity with Abraham's natural Seed as such being abolished. Moreover Paul told these Corinthians, ⟨p. 208⟩all things were now become anew; a new Church, and a new Church Membership, and a new right to that Church Membership, and now there is no knowing of Men after the Flesh, this Doctrine he preached to these Corinthians, 2 Cor. 5. 16. 17. and you force me to urge this matter often, wherefore henceforth know we no Man after the Flesh, yea, though we have known Christ after the Flesh, yet now henceforth know him no more, what doth the Apostle intend here by these words but this. viz. now henceforth or from the establishment of the dispensation of the Gospel, we know no Man after the Flesh; know, to know here, is to prefer or to esteem no Man above others, upon the account of their fleshly descent from Abraham in a lineal way by Generation, or in respect had to any Covenant God made with him or his fleshly Seed as such, that Covenant and Covenant right being taken away, he took away the first that he might establish the second,