A47591:1224
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.
Baptism (say you) setteth little Children under a particular obligation to be the Lord's; doubtless they can receive such an obligation now as formerly they did, Deut. 29. 11, 12. And it is as certain that this Bond is a great advantage to make them willing when they come to age, God hath presented them by the Grace of his Covenant, &c.
Answ. 1. 'Tis you pretend to lay them under an obligation, but not by Christ's authority, prove he hath commanded you so to do.
2. Doth Baptism confer Grace? you seem to assert this, for else how hath God by Baptism prevented them? Your sprinkling them with water doth not, cannot prevent them. I affirm therefore 'tis an obligation of man's devising, for you cannot prove it is of God's appointment; therefore to refuse to bring them under such an obligation is no fantastic thing, as you intimate it is. You say the mark of the Spirit is upon them.
2. Doth Baptism confer Grace? you seem to assert this, for else how hath God by Baptism prevented them? Your sprinkling them with water doth not, cannot prevent them. I affirm therefore 'tis an obligation of man's devising, for you cannot prove it is of God's appointment; therefore to refuse to bring them under such an obligation is no fantastick thing, as you intimate it is. You say the mark of the Spirit is upon them.