A47591:1295
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.
But he adds, the Apostle saith in 2 Thes. 3. 10. saith he, if any would not work, neither should he eat would not that Father be unnatural, who would take an occasion from this Scripture to starve his little Children, because they cannot work; so when Christ saith, he that believeth and is baptized; it doth not follow, that none ought to be baptized until they believe.
But he adds, the Apostle saith in 2 Thes. 3. 10. saith he, if any would not work, neither should he eat would not that Father be unnatural, who would take an occasion from this Scripture to starve his little Children, because they cannot work; so when Christ saith, he that believeth and is baptized; it doth not follow, that none ought to be baptized untill they believe.
Answer. 1. I answer, this seems strange, when Christ in the Affirmative declares, who he would have baptized; doth it not follow that in the Negative, none else ought to be baptized. In other cases you would not argue thus, as for Example, when God commanded Abraham to Circumcise his Male Infants, doth he not implicitly forbid the Circumcising of his Female Children, and when he commanded him to Circumcise his Male Infants on the eighth day, doth he not implicitly forbid him to circumcise them on the seventh or ninth day, and when Paul saith, let a Man examine himself, and so let him eat, doth he not forbid Infants to partake thereof, and all to come to the Lord's Supper, that do not so examine themselves, or who do not discern the Lord's Body. Moreover,
Answer. 1. I answer, this seems strange, when Christ in the Affirmative declares, who he would have baptized; doth it not follow that in the Negative, none else ought to be baptized. In other cases you would not argue thus, as for Example, when God commanded Abraham to Circumcise his Male Infants, doth he not implicitly forbid the Circumcising of his Female Children, and when he commanded him to Circumcise his Male Infants on the eighth day, doth he not implictly forbid him to circumcise them on the seventh or ninth day, and when Paul saith, let a Man examine himself, and so let him eat, doth he not forbid Infants to partake thereof, and all to come to the Lord's Supper, that do not so examine themselves, or who do not discern the Lord's Body. Moreover,