A47591:1154
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.
1. 'Tis said Justin Martyr was Converted about 30 years after the Apostle John; and by the Order then used in the Church, It appears there was no Infant baptism thought of.
Walafrid Strabo, as I find him cited by a great Historian, says, that there was no Children, but aged and understanding Persons Baptized in this Age; that is to say in the Second Century. Wall. Strabo. Eccl. Hist. cap. 26. Vicecom. l. 1. c, 30.
Walafrid Strabo, as I find him cited by a great Historian, says, that there was no Children, but aged and understanding Persons Baptized in this Age; that is to say in the Second Century. Wal. Strabo. Eccl. Hist. cap. 26. Vicecom. l. 1. c, 30.
Tertullian in his Book of Baptism speaking of that Text: Suffer little Children to come unto me, saith he, Indeed the Lord said, do not hinder them to come unto me. Let them come therefore while they grow to Years, and while come, let them be Taught; let them become Christians when they are able to know Christ. Why doth Innocent Age hasten to the Remission of Sins? Men will deal more warily in Worldly affairs: So that they who are not trusted with an Earthly Inheritance, are trusted with an Heavenly one: Let them ask for Salvation, that thou mayest appear to have given it to them.