A47591:1241
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. 1. I answer; Circumcision was God's absolute and positive Command in the Jewish Church, which was national; but God hath not commanded Infants to be baptized into the Gospel-Church which is not National, but Congregational: if therefore there was the like Authority from God for the one as there was for the other, we would contend with you no longer.
2. 'Tis you that would seem wiser than God, whose Wisdom hath not led him to erect his Gospel Church of such Materials, or of such Matter, and in such Form now, as it was his Wisdom to build the Jewish or Legal Church: Must the fleshly Seed as such be taken into the Gospel-Church by Baptism, because the Male-Infants were circumcised under the Law? Who tells you so? where is it written? Will you be wiser than God? Did not John Baptist say, Think not to say within your selves we have Abraham to our Father? Now the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree. Now the case is altered, as if he should say; Now we know no Man after the Flesh, 2 Cor. 5. 17, 18.
2. 'Tis you that would seem wiser than God, whose Wisdom hath not led him to erect his Gospel Church of such Materials, or of such Matter, and in such Form now, as it was his Wisdom to build the Jewish or Legal Church: Must the fleshly Seed as such be taken into the Gospel-Church by Baptism, because the Male-Infants were circumcised under the Law? Who tells you so? where is it written? Will you be wiser than God? Did not John Baptist say, Think not to say within your selves we have Abraham to our Father? Now the Ax is laid to the Root of the Tree. Now the case is altered, as if he should say; Now we know no Man after the Flesh, 2 Cor. 5. 17, 18.