A47591:1130
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.
4. But will you said I build an Ordinance upon a probability and on uncertain Consequences; nay one of the sacred Institutions of the Gospel, called one of the two great Sacraments thereof; that Text, 1 Cor. 7. 14. we have already answered. Now from the whole, we shall draw Conclusions in opposition to yours.
1. That the Covenant that God made with Noah and his Family, was a Covenant made with all the World, and so not the Covenant of Grace, though there was Mercy and Grace contained in it to all Mankind, and to the Fowls of the Air, and Beasts of the Field also.
2. That God's taking all Abraham's Family or Household into Covenant as such, it was only a Covenant that peculiarly appertained to his natural Seed, and it had many Temporal Blessings and Privileges attending it, which no Household under the Gospel can pretend unto, and of this Covenant Circumcision was a sign, and that Circumcision was only given to be a Seal of the righteousness of Faith to Abraham only, and not to little Children.
2. That God's taking all Abraham's Family or Household into Covenant as such, it was only a Covenant that peculiarly appertained to his natural Seed, and it had many Temporal Blessings and Priviledges attending it, which no Houshold under the Gospel can pretend unto, and of this Covenant Circumcision was a sign, and that Circumsion was only given to be a Seal of the righteousness of Faith to Abraham only, and not to little Children.