A47591:1266
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.
There is not one particular Command, totidem verbis, naming Infant-Baptism, and that is not necessary; but there is an Universal Command to baptize all Nations, of which Children are a great part. If there is a Command for the baptizing of the Parents, then there is a Command for the baptizing ⟨p. 240⟩of Infants; for the Children are included in the Parents, even as Parts of them, being Partakers of the Privileges of good Parents, and of the Judgments of the wicked Parents.
1. Answ. I answer, Whether you have or have not proved, by the Holy Scriptures and Arguments, that Infants ought to be baptized, is now upon a fair Trial committed to the Judgment of the Impartial Reader.
2. We do not require you to bring a Command, in totidem verbis, or in so many Words, Let Infants be baptized: But your Inferences are not good; for, as you have no Precept, no Command, or any Precedent to baptize them, so you can draw no fair and good Consequences for it from any Text of Scripture.