A47591:1308
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.
Answ. I answer, no doubt, if any Babe was a fit Subject of Baptism, it was the Holy Child Jesus, if purity and inherent Holiness, gave to the Subjects thereof the proper right, but 'tis not Holiness primarily and simply considered in it self, that gives any person a right to Baptism, but the mere positive Command of God, and the positive Command of God, only runs to such Persons that believe, and therefore not to Infants, tho' we grant the positive Command of Circumcision, required Male Infants to be Circumcised under the Law, which Law Christ came to fulfil, and obey in every thing, therefore Christ when an Infant was Circumcised according to the Tenor of the Law, and Order thereof; and he was Baptized also when an Adult Person, according to the Tenor and Rule of the Gospel: No doubt had it been the mind and will of God, That Infants should have been Baptized, Jesus Christ as an example to others would have been Baptized in his Infancy.
Answ. I answer, no doubt, if any Babe was a fit Subject of Baptism, it was the Holy Child Jesus, if purity and inherent Holiness, gave to the Subjects thereof the proper right, but 'tis not Holiness primarily and simply consider'd in it self, that gives any person a right to Baptism, but the meer positive Command of God, and the positive Command of God, only runs to such Persons that believe, and therefore not to Infants, tho' we grant the positive Command of Circumcision, required Male Infants to be Circumcised under the Law, which Law Christ came to fulfil, and obey in every thing, therefore Christ when an Infant was Circumcised according to the Tenor of the Law, and Order thereof; and he was Baptized also when an Adult Person, according to the Tenor and Rule of the Gospel: No doubt had it been the mind and will of God, That Infants should have been Baptized, Jesus Christ as an example to others would have been Baptized in his Infancy.
2. But say you, if we are to imitate our Saviour in his Baptism, we must not be baptized until we are Thirty years of age.