A47591:1132
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.
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.
3. That the whole House of Israel as such, or the whole Nation of the Jews, under the Law were all as so considered then, the Church of God, and that the Gospel Church consisteth not of whole Households or any one whole Nation, it being not of an National Constitution, but Congregational only, consisting of none but of believers, baptized upon the profession of their Faith who are called the Household of Faith.
3. That the whole House of Israel as such, or the whole Nation of the Jews, under the Law were all as so considered then, the Church of God, and that the Gospel Church consisteth not of whole Housholds or any one whole Nation, it being not of an National Constitution, but Congregational only, consisting of none but of believers, baptized upon the profession of their Faith who are called the Houshold of Faith.