A47591:1189
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.
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.
Answ. What then? I ask him and you, or any other of our Opposers, whether ye do not believe for several Centuries those Fathers who admitted Infants to the Lord's Supper without censuring or condemning it, were not guilty also of as great Impurity? Besides, did not the same Fathers hold other Errors? See Mr. Perkins Demonst. of the Problem, pag. 488. These are his Words, viz.