A47591:1142
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.
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.
The first is Calvin a latter Writer, I know not but Ireneus and Cyprian might be both had out of him: I do confess, Ireneus lived not above Two Hundred Years after Christ; or in the second Century, thus he and many others cite him, viz. Omnes venit Christus per semet ipsum salvare, omnes qui per eum renascuntur ad Deum Infantes, & parvulos Juniors & Seniors. In English thus: Christ Jesus came to save all by himself, all who by him are born again unto God, Infants and little ones, Young and Old.
The first is Calvin a latter Writer, I know not but Ireneus and Cyprian might be both had out of him: I do confess, Ireneus lived not above Two Hundred Years after Christ; or in the second Century, thus he and many others cite him, viz. Omnes venit Christus per semet ipsum salvare, omnes qui per eum renascuntur ad Deum Infantes, & parvulos Juniores & Seniores. In English thus: Christ Jesus came to save all by himself, all who by him are born again unto God, Infants and little ones, Young and Old.