A47591:1205
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.
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.
Answ. Sir, you mistake, it was while Men slept that the Enemy first sowed the evil Seed of Babes-Baptism in the Church. Moreover, the Baptism of Believers, in opposition to Infant-Baptism, I have proved is no part of those Tares the Adversary hath sowed, but it is Seed which Jesus Christ himself sowed, or 'tis (I mean) his own holy Institution.
You tell us a Story of one John Smith, a Minister of the Church of England, who went into Holland, and united with the Church of one Mr. Ainsworth, and in the end being cast out of the Church, he baptized himself, and the• rebaptized others.
Answ. I could tell you of many evil and foul things and practices done by some Presbyterians, but should I brand the whole Brotherhood from thence? Do you not show an evil and detracting Tongue, by casting such Odiums upon the whole Body of gracious Christians, falsely called Anabaptists: For we are not for Rebaptizing, or Baptizing again such who have been truly and rightly Baptized, that were the proper Subjects of that holy Ordinance.