A47591:1195
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.
Mr. Owen saith, That Infant-Baptism was so generally in the Church of God, that the Pelagians could not deny it, tho they denied Original Sin, against the which it was a Medicine. And that Bernard, who lived between the Year 1091, and the Year 1153, declareth it was the Practice of the Church in those Ages.
Answ. We deny not, but readily grant, that the Baptism of Infants was in the Church long before that time: And remarkable 'tis, that about 1091 or 1100, Popish Darkness was at its greatest height. And was it any wonder those Fathers gave Baptism to Infants when it was the Practice of those times before Bernard, to give Infants the Lord's Supper also, as well as Baptism? Which Mr. Owen knows well enough, if he hath read any thing of History.
2. Bernard, Mr. Owen saith, Censured those who opposed Infant-Baptism, &c.
2. Bernard, Mr. Owen saith, Censur'd those who opposed Infant-Baptism, &c.