A47591:1188
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.
Ans. And they had (say I) as much Ground for the one as for the other, and there is the same parity of reason to conclude, as they erred in one, so they did in the other.
Why doth you not from hence give Infants also the Lord's Supper? The Reason you give I have before proved insignificant.
As to his third Demonstration, it is not denied but that Infant Baptism was received in the Church in the third and fourth Century, with many other Fopperies, but that doth him no kindness; the Church was adulterated from the true Apostolical Faith and Practice, in many Respects in those and after times downwards.
As to his third Demonstration, it is not denyed but that Infant Baptism was received in the Church in the third and fourth Century, with many other Fopperies, but that doth him no kindness; the Church was adulterated from the true Apostolical Faith and Practice, in many Respects in those and after times downwards.
His fourth Demonstration is this, viz. If it was a gross Error in the Primitive Fathers to admit Infants to Baptism, then they in suffering such an Error to pass uncensured and uncondemned, were guilty of the greatest Impiety, &c.