A47591:1326
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.
3. Are all the Infants that you baptize, let in as Members of your Church, are they absolutely Members of your Congregations, as having the Ordinance of Admission, is the Door of God's House opened to them? How can you then (say I) deny them the privilege of true and lawful Members, shall your little Members, your Lambs in Christ's Fold being New Born be starved, what shall the regenerated Babe not be fed with the Food of their Fathers House?
3. Are all the Infants that you baptize, let in as Members of your Church, are they absolutely Members of your Congregations, as having the Ordinance of Admission, is the Door of God's House opened to them? How can you then (say I) deny them the priviledge of true and lawful Members, shall your little Members, your Lambs in Christ's Fold being New Born be starved, what shall the regenerated Babe not be fed with the Food of their Fathers House?
4. But if thus, what number of Members have you in your Churches, that have not their Names in your Church-book, nor perhaps, never looked after when grown up, nor cast out, though profane and Wicked? for do you cast out or exclude all such Children you baptized, when grown up, if not, what polluted Churches are yours. Infant Baptism was doubtless contrived to increase National Churches, or to make national Churches, and it doth tend indeed, to increase and continue that Christian Religion that is in Name only, and not in Power; you have, its true in England, by mere necessity lost your National Constitution, and are become Congregational, whether you will or no, but Infant Baptism will not accord with a congregation Constitution, nor do such Churches ⟨p. 237⟩so constituted that are for Infant Baptism, own their Babes to be proper and true Members of their Churches so far as I can learn, what then signifies your Sacrament of Admission, if they are not in truth admitted and owned as Members, and allowed the Food and Privileges of such.