A47591:1334
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 hope by this time, the Reader may discern how great an error 'tis to call Rantism or Sprinkling Baptizing, and that Infant Baptism is also an error, being a mere human innovation, this I have proved, and therefore 'tis so far from being a Sin to disown it and cast it away, that it is every good Christians Duty so to do, that would in all things walk by the rule of God's Word. And for Mr. Owen to charge our People after this manner, as if we were perverted and ensnared by the Devil, in denying our Infants Baptism, is just as the Papists used to charge the Protestants that disowned the human Traditions, and the vain ⟨p. 239⟩Fopperies of their rotten Church, and thundered out their Bulls against them.
Answ. I hope by this time, the Reader may discern how great an error 'tis to call Rantism or Sprinkling Baptizing, and that Infant Baptism is also an error, being a meer human innovation, this I have prov'd, and theresore 'tis so far from being a Sin to disown it and cast it away, that it is every good Christians Duty so to do, that would in all things walk by the rule of God's Word. And for Mr. Owen to charge our People after this manner, as if we were perverted and insnared by the Devil, in denying our Infants Baptism, is just as the Papists used to charge the Protestants that disowned the human Traditions, and the vain ⟨p. 239⟩Fopperies of their rotten Church, and thunder'd out their Bulls against them.
1 You say they are guilty of great Sin, insomuch that they neglect to make a right use of their first Baptism, Infant Baptism putteth them under continual Vow to the Lord, and they are bound to renew their Vows, to take the Lord to be a God unto them, as soon as they come to age.