A47591:1267
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.
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.
You bring the Words of the Great Commission, Matth. 28. 19, 20. Go baptize all Nations. Sir, Why dare you leave out part of the Words? Is it not Go therefore, teach all Nations, baptizing them, &c.? We have showed in our Answer to you already, that the Commission requires none to be baptized but such who are first taught or made Disciples; which Disciples St. Mark calls Believers, He that believes and is baptized, Mark 16. 16. They are, Reader, the Words of the same Commission, tho differently expressed by these two Great Evangelists, and hold forth the same thing, viz. That the Gospel is to be preached in all Nations, or to all the World, and that those that are discipled by preaching, or that do believe, ought to be baptized, and none else.
You bring the Words of the Great Commission, Matth. 28. 19, 20. Go baptize all Nations. Sir, Why dare you leave out part of the Words? Is it not Go therefore, teach all Nations, baptizing them, &c.? We have shewed in our Answer to you already, that the Commission requires none to be baptized but such who are first taught or made Disciples; which Disciples St. Mark calls Believers, He that believes and is baptized,