A47591:1247
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; You cannot prove that God hath any manner of ways owned or blessed Infant-Baptism: for because God hath continued a Seed to serve him in every Age since the Apostles time, will you attribute that to Infant-Baptism, which is only to be ascribed to the rich and sovereign Grace of God, and Power of his Spirit?
Answ. 1. I answer; You cannot prove that God hath any manner of ways owned or blessed Infant-Baptism: for because God hath continued a Seed to serve him in every Age since the Apostles time, will you attribute that to Infant-Baptism, which is only to be ascribed to the rich and soveraign Grace of God, and Power of his Spirit?
2. As to the true Church, for many years she was hid, and in the Wilderness she fled from the face of the Romish Beast and cruel Dragon, Rev. 12. I must confess Infant-Baptism hath in part been a means to keep up the name of the Christian Religion in the Church ever since the Apostasy; and it was contrived no doubt to make the Church great and large, i. e. to make whole Families, Parishes, and Nations the Church, this is evident; and if this be the way to continue and enlarge the Church, the Lord deliver the true Church from such a Practice and Invention of Men.
2. As to the true Church, for many years she was hid, and in the Wilderness she fled from the face of the Romish Beast and cruel Dragon, Rev. 12. I must confess Infant-Baptism hath in part been a means to keep up the name of the Christian Religion in the Church ever since the Apostacy; and it was contrived no doubt to make the Church great and large, i. e. to make whole Families, Parishes, and Nations the Church, this is evident; and if this be the way to continue and enlarge the Church, the Lord deliver the true Church from such a Practice and Invention of Men.