A47591:1141
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.
Thus Mr. Owen begins in his 14th Chapter of his Book, viz. the Children of the Faithful were baptized in every Age of the Church of God since the Apostles time until this latter Age, as I can prove at large if it were profitable for the unlearned Reader, I shall set down some Examples.
THus Mr. Owen begins in his 14th Chapter of his Book, viz. the Children of the Faithful were baptized in every Age of the Church of God since the Apostles time until this latter Age, as I can prove at large if it were profitable for the unlearned Reader, I shall set down some Examples.
Ans. 8. Your argument is, that Children ought to be baptized, because they were baptized in every age of the Church since the Apostles time.
Ans. 1. Give one Instance if you can, out of approved History, of one Infant baptized in the first or second Century, but pass by Two or Three Hundred Years after Christ, and many errors besides this of Infant Baptism crept amain into the Churches. But pray remember, now you are without Book, you are forced to quit the Holy Bible, the Sacred History, and great Charter of the Church; and therefore all your proof out of Humane History, which may be true, or may not be true, signifies nothing. But you had best take heed, lest we carry the cause against you here too, ⟨p. 215⟩i. e. for the first Centuries; we will examine your Authors and humane Testimonies.