A47591:1170
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.
2. That in those times in the Confession of Faith, in the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, which was done in a Public and Solemn manner in their Baptism, a liberty of Choice and Consent was required as preparatory to it; for the incapacity of the Infant in the Womb, to declare this Choice and Consent, is the reason why they conclude that the Infant was not baptized with the Mother.
2. That in those times in the Confession of Faith, in the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, which was done in a Publick and Solemn manner in their Baptism, a liberty of Choice and Consent was required as preparatory to it; for the incapacity of the Infant in the Womb, to declare this Choice and Consent, is the reason why they conclude that the Infant was not baptized with the Mother.
3. That it was then judged necessary to have the Consent and Choice of those who were to be baptized.
3. That it was then judg'd necessary to have the Consent and Choice of those who were to be baptized.
Dr. Du-Veil, citing the same Synod on this passage (viz. that concerning the Baptism of a Woman with Child, that her Baptism concerns not her Child, for every one is to give a demonstration of his own Faith and Confession) saith, however the interpreters draw it to another purpose; it does appear that the Question ⟨p. 222⟩was made of a Woman big with Child, because it did seem that the Child was baptized together with the Mother, which notwithstanding ought not to be used, nor to be baptized, except of its own proper Election and Profession.