A47591:1228
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 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.
Infant-Baptism is an excellent means (you say) to plant the true Religion, and to continue the Church, by giving an advantage for the Ministers of the Gospel to reason with such when they come to age, far better than they can with those that are not baptized, that they might call them to remembrance of their baptismal Vow, &c.