A47591:1118
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.
Mr. Burkit is so unreasonable as to put us upon searching the Scripture to prove a Negative, i. e. that there were none baptized in Infancy; we might as well have desired him to give proof that there never was any Infant ordained an Elder, or Pastor of a Church; or how can we prove they did not make use of Honey or Oil in Baptism, which some of the ancient Fathers used, as Mr. Perkins Notes, or Salt or Spittle, which practice is still in the Romish Church? Where is the extreme •unction forbid, or auricular Confession, or the use of Beads in Prayer, and a hundred more such Romish Fopperies? May these things be therefore done, because we read not that they are forbid, I thought adding to God's Word was forbidden, Rev. 22.
Mr. Burkit is so unreasonable as to put us upon searching the Scripture to prove a Negative, i. e. that there were none baptized in Infancy; we might as well have desired him to give proof that there never was any Infant ordained an Elder, or Pastor of a Church; or how can we prove they did not make use of Honey or Oil in Baptism, which some of the ancient Fathers used, as Mr. Perkins Notes, or Salt or Spittle, which practice is still in the Romish Church? Where is the extream •unction forbid, or auricular Confession, or the use of Beads in Prayer, and a hundred more such Romish Fopperies? May these things be therefore done, because we read not that they are forbid, I thought adding to God's Word was forbidden, Rev. 22.
But says Mr. Burkit, search the Scripture, and produce me any one instance if you can from the time of St. John the Baptist, to the time of St. John the Evangelist, which was more than threescore Years, during which time many Thousands of Infants were grown up to maturity, and make it appear there were not any baptized in their Infancy, or that their Baptism was deferred till riper years, or that there is any divine Command for the delaying the baptism of Children of Christian Parents, until they are grown up, and I will frankly yield the Cause. Bravely spoken.