A47591:1175
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.
The same learned Author, saith, De peccato Orig. Numb. […]. saith Morem Infantes Baptizandi non capisse […] Seculum, &c. That the custom of […] infants, did not begin till the Third Age […] Christ, but in the two former no footsteps of it appear. And afterwards saith Sine ipsius [Christi] […]; it was introduced without the command of Christ.
The same learned Author, saith, De peccato Orig. Numb. 〈…〉. saith Morem Infantes Baptizandi non capisse 〈…〉 Seculum, &c. That the custom of 〈…〉 infants, did not begin till the Third Age 〈…〉 Christ, but in the two former no footsteps of it appear. And afterwards saith Sine ipsius [Christi] 〈…〉; it was introduced without the command of Christ.
Athanasius in sermone 3 contra Arianos, saith,
our Saviour did not slightly command to baptize, but first of all said, Teach and then Baptize, that true Faith might come by teaching, and Baptism be perfected by Faith. Haimo in Postilla upon the Text, Go teach all Nations, Fol. 278. In this place, (saith he) is set down a Rule rightly how to baptize, that is, that Teaching should go before Baptism; for he saith, teach all Nations, and then he saith, and baptize them, for he that is to be baptized, must be before instructed; that he first learn to believe that which in Baptism he shall receive; for as Faith without works is Dead, so Works when they are not of Faith, are nothing worth. Idem in Annatationibus in mar. The Apostles were commanded first to Teach and then to baptize: The Jews were brought by Ceremonies to the Knowledge of the Truth, but Christians must learn to know them first.