A47591:1157
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.
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.
Ignatius in his Discourse about Baptism asserts, that it ought to be accompanied with Faith, Love, and Patience after Preaching. H. Montanus p. 45. and Jacob Dubois, p. 16. to 22. and Dutch Martyrology, where Ignatius's Letters are mentioned to Polycarp, Tralensis to them of Philadelphia.
Ignatius in his Discourse about Baptism asserts, that it ought to be accompanyed with Faith, Love, and Patience after Preaching. H. Montanus p. 45. and Jacob Dubois, p. 16. to 22. and Dutch Martyrology, where Ignatius's Letters are mentioned to Polycarp, Tralensis to them of Philadelphia.
Dr. Taylor saith in his Dissuasive against Popery, p. 118. printed 1667, one of his last pieces, Thus, viz. That there is a Tradition to baptize Infants, relies but upon two Witnesses, Origen and Austin, and the latter having it from the former, it lies upon a single Testimony, which (saith he) is a pitiful argument to prove a Tradition Apostolical. He is the first that spoke of it; but Tertullian, that was before him, seems to speak against it, which he would not have done, if it had been an Apostolical Tradition; and that it was not so, is but too certain, if there be any Truth in the Words of Ludovicus Vives, who says, that anciently none were baptized, but Persons of ripe Age.