A47591:1214
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. 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.
You add, It is an excellent means for this end, making Children to be Disciples of Christ; let none marvel at this, because Infants are of the number of Disciples: Acts 15. 11. Why tempt ye God, to put a yoke on the necks of the Disciples? Those Disciples were, say you, the Faithful and their Seed.
Answ. This is not true: The Disciples, in the Text you cite, refer only to Believers among the Gentiles; those false Teachers would have the Brethren be circumcised, and they were they only that are called Disciples.