A47591:1171
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.
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.
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 notwitstanding ought not to be used, nor to be baptized, except of its own proper Election and Profession.
Dr. Barlow, Late Bishop of Lincoln, in his Letter to Mr. T. saith, I believe there is neither Precept nor Example in the Scripture for Pedo-Baptism, nor any just Evidence for it, for above 200 Years after Christ. Tertullian condemns it as an unwarrantable Custom, and Naziarzen a good while after dislikes it: Sure I am, (saith he) that in the primitive times they were Catcumni, then Illuminati or Baptizati, and that not only Pagans, and Children of Pagans Converted, but Children of Christian Parents. The Truth is, I do believe Pedo-Baptism, how or by whom I know not, came into the World in the second Century, and in the third and fourth began to be practised, though not generally, and was defended as lawful from the Text,