A47591:1204
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.
To conclude with this Argument: From hence we infer, that the practice of the Church under the Romish Apostasy of Infant-Baptism, in every Age, since the first Centuries unto these Times, is no good Proof for it. What tho Calvin and Luther, two famous Protestant Reformers, and many other Modern Divines were, and many Godly and Learned Men are now for this Tradition; Must it be therefore a Truth? Must our Faith stand in the Wisdom of Men in this matter, or in the Power of God, and in the Authority of his Sacred Word? Our first Protestant Reformers were raised ⟨p. 227⟩up to restore those Grand Fundamentals of Faith, more than to reform Matters of Discipline, and about this Rite of Infant-Baptism and some other Ceremonies. The Path of the Just is as a shining Light, that shines more and more to the perfect Day, Prov. 4. 18.
To conclude with this Argument: From hence we infer, that the practice of the Church under the Romish Apostacy of Infant-Baptism, in every Age, since the first Centuries unto these Times, is no good Proof for it. What tho Calvis and Luther, two famous Protestant Reformers, and many other Modern Divines were, and many Godly and Learned Men are now for this Tradition; Must it be therefore a Truth? Must our Faith stand in the Wisdom of Men in this matter, or in the Power of God, and in the Authority of his Sacred Word? Our first Protestant Reformers were raised ⟨p. 227⟩up to restore those Grand Fundamentals of Faith, more than to reform Matters of Discipline, and about this Rite of Infant-Baptism and some other Ceremonies. The Path of the Just is as a shining Light, that shines more and more to the perfect Day, Prov. 4. 18.
You Hint, that not one questioned the Privilege of Children to Baptism, until the Adversary came while Men slept, and sowed Tares among the Wheat.