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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.
Answ. Doth Mr. Owen think that we deny that any our Children have right to the Covenant of Grace? God forbid; the Controversy lies not there: for all our Children that are elected, are decretively in the Covenant of Grace, also virtually by the Death and Merits of Jesus Christ, and also actually they are and shall be in it when they believe, or when they have Union with Christ; but that the Children of the Faithful as such, or (as so considered) are in the Covenant of Grace, we do utterly deny.
Answ. Doth Mr. Owen think that we deny that any our Children have right to the Covenant of Grace? God forbid; the Controversy lies not there: for all our Children that are elected, are decretively in the Covenant of Grace, also vertually by the Death and Merits of Jesus Christ, and also actually they are and shall be in it when they believe, or when they have Union with Christ; but that the Children of the Faithful as such, or (as so considered) are in the Covenant of Grace, we do utterly deny.
2. If the Covenant of Grace was made with Adam, and his Natural Seed as such, will it not follow that he owns Universal Salvation?
Can any Perish that are in the Covenant of Grace? Is not that an everlasting Covenant, well ordered in all things and ••re? 2 Sam. 23. 5. and is not the Promise sure to all the seed? Rom. 4. 16. it being not only confirmed to them all by the Promise, but also by the Oath of God, Heb. 6. 13—18. 17. But,