A47591:1113
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.
1. If there were no Families or Households, but in which there are some Infants, you might have some pretence for what you infer from hence; but how palpable is it, that there are every where many whole Families, in which there is no Infant or Child in nonage, and this being so, what certain Conclusion or Consequence can he drawn from hence?
1. If there were no Families or Housholds, but in which there are some Infants, you might have some pretence for what you infer from hence; but how palpable is it, that there are every where many whole Families, in which there is no Infant or Child in nonage, and this being so, what certain Conclusion or Consequence can he drawn from hence?
2. Besides you know by a Synecdoche, a part is put for the whole, as Isa. 7. 2, 5, 8, 9. the Tribe of Ephraim is put for all Israel: 'tis said, all Jerusalem and Judah went out to be baptized by John in Jordan. In 1 Sam. 1, 21. 22. the Text saith, The Man Elkanah, and all his House went up to offer unto the Lord, yet in the next Verse 'tis said expressly, That Hannah and her Child Samuel went not up; nay you have showed us a Family or whole House that were said to bury the Body of Sampson, and yet you tell us the little Children were not included in that Expression, all his House.
2. Besides you know by a Synecdecha, a part is put for the whole, as Isa. 7. 2, 5, 8, 9. the Tribe of Ephraim is put for all Israel: 'tis said, all Jerusalem and Judah went out to be baptized by John in Jordan. In 1 Sam. 1, 21. 22. the Text saith, The Man Elkanah, and all his House went up to offer unto the Lord, yet in the next Verse 'tis said expresly, That Hannah and her Child Samuel went not up; nay you have shewed us a Family or whole House that were said to bury the Body of Sampson, and yet you tell us the little Children were not included in that Expression, all his House.