A47591:1182
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.
But to proceed, Your first Demonstration to prove Infant Baptism in the days after the Apostles is this, viz. because that Children had Hands laid upon them in their Minority.
Ans. This signifies nothing, for as the Fathers changed the Ordinance of Baptism from believing Men and Women to ignorant Babes, so they changed imposition of Hands (which I own to be a principle of Christ's Doctrine, Heb. 6. 12) to such young People, who in their Minority had learned the Articles of the Christian Faith. But clear it is, in the primitive Apostolical times, none but baptized Believers were admitted to that Ordinance of laying on of Hands, as Acts 8. 14. and 19. 6.
But your Brother Mr. Burkit acknowledgeth, that formerly there were such called Catechumeni, Persons taught or instructed, and afterwards baptized.