A47591:1227
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. Baptism is no mark of the Spirit to any but to such who have the Spirit; and what a Mock-Baptism is it to give the Sign, where appears no demonstration of the thing thereby signified?
(You say) on the other side, Satan hath not such an advantage against those that are baptized in their Infancy.
Answ. How doth it appear that Satan hath not such an advantage against your Children (as he hath against ours that were never baptized, as you call Rantism) I am sure our Children generally are as sober, and helped to escape Satan's snares as far forth as yours generally are. VVill God own or bless an humane Tradition? The Woman that Luther mentioned, no doubt might think she was obliged to fear God by that sort of Baptism she had when she was an Infant, yet God never obliged her to come under that obligation, but may be she was baptized when a Believer.
However the Papists may argue for their voluntary Vows after the same manner, viz. it is a great help and an advantage to them to preserve them from sin, and temptations of the Devil.