A47591:1237
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.
5. Besides, the Baptismal Vow you brought them under being not by God's Appointment, what Blessing can you expect from thence? Will God own and bless a voluntary Vow, or approve of an Humane Tradition?
6. The Papists (as I hinted before) may expect as well, and from as good Ground and Authority, as great advantage to press Holiness and Chastity upon those that they bring under their voluntary Vows and Covenants in their Nunneries and Friaries.
6. The Papists (as I hinted before) may expect as well, and from as good Ground and Authority, as great advantage to press Holiness and Chastity upon those that they bring under their voluntary Vows and Covenants in their Nunneries and Fryaries.
7. Besides, your Children entered not into that Baptismal-Covenant you talk of by their own consent; they knew nothing of it, and can find no Authority from God's Word you had to bring them under it; and therefore what power is that like to have upon their Consciences? Had you not better bring them under a solemn Vow to become good, and to repent as soon as they come to age; nay, bring them under an Oath, or cause them to enter into a solemn Covenant so to do, and set their Hands unto it? But you will say, you have no Command nor Warrant from God's Word to do that; no more, say we, have you any Command or Warrant from the Word of God to bring them under any such Baptismal Vow, •o forsake Sin, the Devil, and all his Works, &c. in their Infancy.
7. Besides, your Children entred not into that Baptismal-Covenant you talk of by their own consent; they knew nothing of it, and can find no Authority from God's Word you had to bring them under it; and therefore what power is that like to have upon their Consciences? Had you not better bring them under a solemn Vow to become good, and to repent as soon as they come to age; nay, bring them under an Oath, or cause them to enter into a solemn Covenant so to do, and set their Hands unto it? But you will say, you have no Command nor Warrant from God's Word to do that; no more, say we, have you any Command or Warrant from the Word of God to bring them under any such Baptismal Vow, o forsake Sin, the Devil, and all his Works, &c. in their Infancy.