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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.
AS to what you say about the Tree of Life, and Tree of Knowledge, that they were Seals of the two Covenants, viz. of the Covenant of Works, and of the Covenant of Grace, or free Promise of God, it is far fetched and very doubtful, and as little to the Purpose for which you mention them; therefore I shall pass that by.
AS to what you say about the Tree of Life, and Tree of Knowledg, that they were Seals of the two Covenants, viz. of the Covenant of Works, and of the Covenant of Grace, or free Promise of God, it is far fetch'd and very doubtful, and as little to the Purpose for which you mention them; therefore I shall pass that by.
2dly. As touching Circumcision being a dark Shadow of the Old Covenant under the Old Dispensation, it may be granted; but that it was the Seal of the Covenant of Grace (which you affirm elsewhere in your Book) I do deny, it being only a Seal of Abraham's Faith, even of that Faith he had, being yet Uncircumcised, and also that he should be the Father of all that should believe.
3dly. You say well that those dark Shadows, viz. Circumcision, &c. are abolished; the Substance being come, that Yoke of Bondage is taken away: which proves Circumcision did not appertain to the Covenant of Grace, as the Seal of it, in common to all Believers; for the breaking off of a Seal cancels the Covenant to which it was prefixed, as all Men know: So that nothing can be more clear than this, that Circumcision, if it was a Seal of any Covenant, (as you conceive it was) it was a Seal of the Covenant of Works, which neither our Fathers nor we were able to bear, in regard it obliged all that were circumcised to keep perfectly the whole Law, Gal. 5. 3.