A47591:1250
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.
3. Doth it follow, because many Thousands that were baptized (as you call it) when Infants, were after they come to Age truly converted? That that blessed work of Grace upon their Hearts was by virtue of their Infant-Baptism, or from any Motive that arose from thence? Or was it not wholly done by the Power of God's Word preached to them, through the mighty Power and Operations of the Holy Ghost upon their Souls? God hath showed his Mercy, I grant, to such Christians who were Rantized or Sprinkled, in Infancy, in a gracious manner: But this is not to be ascribed to his owning and blessing that Invention of Pedo-Baptism; be sure God will never own as you well say, an Earthly Invention; and I have clearly proved that Infant-Baptism is nothing less or more than an Earthly or Human Invention, therefore God never blessed that. O how few are converted or truly regenerated that have in their Infancy been (as you say) baptized, nay of the Seed of the Faithful! What a Multitude remain ungodly, and so live and die, notwithstanding their Parents Faith, and their Reception of their Infant-Baptism! The Lord open the Eyes of you Worthy and Noble Britons, and send true Light among you as to this matter.
3. Doth it follow, because many Thousands that were baptized (as you call it) when Infants, were after they come to Age truly converted? That that blessed work of Grace upon their Hearts was by virtue of their Infant-Baptism, or from any Motive that arose from thence? Or was it not wholly done by the Power of God's Word preached to them, through the mighty Power and Operations of the Holy Ghost upon their Souls? God hath shewed his Mercy, I grant, to such Christians who were Rantized or Sprinkled, in Infancy, in a gracious manner: But this is not to be ascribed to his owning and blessing that Invention of Pedo-Baptism; be sure God will never own as you well say, an Earthly Invention; and I have clearly proved that Infant-Baptism is nothing less or more than an Earthly or Human Invention, therefore God never blessed that. O how few are converted or truly regenerated that have in their Infancy been (as you say) baptized, nay of the Seed of the Faithful! What a Multitude remain ungodly, and so live and die, notwithstanding their Parents Faith, and their Reception of their Infant-Baptism! The Lord open the Eyes of you Worthy and Noble Britains, and send true Light among you as to this matter.