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…

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.

Ans. Reader, pray observe, here is not a word of one Infant baptized; but this Man infers it from his Words, so that we have nothing but Consequences, neither from God's Word, nor the words of Man. Christ, no doubt, came to save some of all sorts of Men, and who doubts but he came to save Infants, and little ones, Young and Old? But why must these Words [who are born again] be applied to Infant Baptism. The scope of Ireneas in that Chapter, is to refute the Gnostics, who said that Christ did not exceed One and Thirty Years of age; against whom Ireneus alleged that Christ lived in every age, i. e. of Infancy, Youth, and old Age, that by his Age and Example he might sanctify every age. So that here Ireneus speaks not of being born again in Baptism; for he saith, Omnes inquam, qui per eum renascuntur in Deum; i. e. I say, all which are born again by him to God, i. e. by Christ, not as if he had baptized Infants, but because he (i. e. Christ) was an Infant, that by the example or virtue of his Age, he might sanctify Infants, as the whole Discourse in Latin plainly shows, viz. Magister ergo existens, Magistri quoque habebat atatem, non reprobans, nec super grediens hominem, neque solvens suam legem in se humani generis, sed omnem etatem sanctificans per illam, &c.