A47591:1208
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.
CHAP. XVIII.
Showing that Infant Baptism is no excellent way or means to plant the Christian Religion, but a sinful thing; and therefore in opposition to what Mr. James Owen saith, They ought not to be baptized: being an Answer to what he hath wrote in his 15th Chapter, and twelfth and last Argument.
Shewing that Infant Baptism is no excellent way or means to plant the Christian Religion, but a sinful thing; and therefore in opposition to what Mr. James Owen saith, They ought not to be baptized: being an Answer to what he hath wrote in his 15th Chapter, and twelfth and last Argument.
YOU say, Infant Baptism is an excellent means which God hath ordained for to plant and continue the Church of God: Christ thus commanded his Apostles to gather Churches among the Gentiles, by teaching and baptizing them in the Name of the Father, &c. Mat. 28. 29.
Answ. I answer: The way it appears that Christ commanded his Apostles to gather Churches among the Gentiles, is first to teach them, and then baptize them; you say right whilst you repeat the Text, but God hath not commanded to baptize Infants, and that way to plant his Church.