A47591:1232
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. This is certainly a grand mistake; for instead of its being an advantage to Ministers to reason with such that were baptized in their Infancy, to remember their baptismal Vow, and so to believe and turn to God, 'tis apparent it may •inder them; for if those persons when grown up, do call to remembrance what you Pedobaptists have taught and told them, touching those Blessings and Privileges they then received, it may rather take them off from seeking after either Faith or Repentance.
1. For you tell them when their Parents believed, and were saved, they were made partakers of the same Privilege and Blessing also; if so, what need they concern themselves about getting personal Faith? you believe and teach them the Doctrine of final Perseverance; no doubt such who are in a state of Grace, can never finally fall out of it.
2. The Obligation and Vow that lies upon baptized persons according to the Scripture, is not that they seek after Regeneration, no, for it necessarily supposeth that they had that before baptized; but it doth bind or oblige them to persevere in Holiness, that as they have been buried in Baptism, as persons dead to sin, so they should walk in newness of life, Rom. 6. 3, 4. Now you would have your Baptism to oblige your baptized Children to become dead to sin, they were not it appears dead when buried with Christ in Baptism, but you bury them alive, (if you baptized them.) To show them they must die, Sir, God never ordained Baptism to such an end, or to oblige persons thus to do, see Rom. 6. 3. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.