A47591:1248
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.
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.
I look upon Infant-Baptism to be one of the chief Pillars of the Romish Church, and of all National Churches and Constitutions in the European World; this is that Christendom that is so cried up, and the way of making and continuing the pretended Christian-Name; in the Anti-christian Church, and World, all are made Christians in their Infant-Baptism: And thus the Inhabitants of the Earth are cheated, and deluded with a Shadow and empty Name that signifies nothing, and certain I am, until Christendom (as it is called) is Unchristianed of this pretended Rite, or Christendom, and the Inhabitants of the Earth become new Christianed, there will never be a thorough Reformation: I mean until they see that Christianity, or Christian-Name, which they received by their Infant-Baptism, signifies nothing, but throw it away as an Human Innovation, and labour after true Regeneration, or a likeness to Christ, and so believe and are baptized upon the profession of their Faith, according as in the Apostolical Primitive Church: 'Tis Infant-Baptism that tends to uphold all National Churches, and deceives poor People who think they were thereby made Christians.