A47591:1155
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.
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.
Dr. Taylor saith, that the Truth of the business is, as there is no Command of Scripture to oblige Children to the susception of it; so the necessity of Pedo-Baptism was not determined in the Church, till the Canons that was made in the Milevitan Council, a provincial in Africa, never till then. I grant, (saith he) it was practised in Africa before that time, and they, or some of them thought well of it. And though that is no argument for us to think so, yet none of them ever pretended it to be necessary, nor to have been a precept of the Gospel. St. Austin was the first that ever preached it to be necessary, and it was in his Heat and Anger against Pelagius. Thus Dr. Taylor.