A47591:1253
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. 'Tis not very hard to persuade our Children, when God converts them, to be baptized; they readily submit to it; and, until then, they have no more right to Baptism than they have to the Lord's Supper.
3. Will you to anticipate your Children, in fear they will not be baptized when they come to Age, contrary to the Word of God, baptize them when in their Infancy? I must tell you by the same parity of Reason, since some of them you find are so hard to be persuaded to receive the Lord's Supper, you may (as the Ancient Fathers did) give them the Lord's Supper in their Infancy also; you have as much Authority for to do the one as the other.
3. Will you to anticipate your Children, in fear they will not be baptized when they come to Age, contrary to the Word of God, baptize them when in their Infancy? I must tell you by the same parity of Reason, since some of them you find are so hard to be persuaded to receive the Lord's Supper, you may (as the Antient Fathers did) give them the Lord's Supper in their Infancy also; you have as much Authority for to do the one as the other.
4. Do you not implicitly on this Occasion grant and confess, that Baptism of Right belongs to the Adult; but that politically it hath been contrived to baptize Infants, for fear they should not be persuaded to be baptized when they come to Age? And you are willing to continue the Practice, because it is in these Days by you and your Brethren rendered to be a very odious thing to be dipped or baptized when they come to Age and do believe. The Truth is, this Ordinance calls for great Abasement, and much Self-denial; 'tis a hard thing to come under the Baptismal Covenant and Obligation, in Adult Persons, ⟨p. 237⟩