A47591:1335
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.
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.
Answ. 'Tis true, you brought them under an Obligation or a Vow, to take the Lord to be their God in their Infancy, but why did you do it, unless you had any Warrant or Authority from God; for to do such a thing in his Name without his Authority, is Sinful.
2. You might better have stayed till they came to Age of understanding, and if you would bring them under a Vow, have caused them then to have entered into a Covenant to take the Lord to be their God, and no doubt your Children might more dread to break such a Vow they consented to and freely made, then a Covenant or Vow you caused them to enter into in their Infancy, to which they never consented; but perhaps you will say, you have no Ground nor Authority from Gods word to do that, as much every way as you have in Infancy to baptize them, which we say is no Baptism at all, much less Christ's true Baptism, therefore God thereby obliged them not to do what you speak, but it is their Duty when grown up, if God gives them Faith to cast it away as an humane Tradition, and to enter into God's Holy Baptismal Covenant as Believers, according to Christ's great Commission.
2. You might better have stayed till they came to Age of understanding, and if you would bring them under a Vow, have caused them then to have entered into a Covenant to take the Lord to be their God, and no doubt your Children might more dread to break such a Vow they consented to and freely made, then a Covenant or Vow you caused them to enter into in their Infancy, to which they never consented; but perhaps you will say, you have no Ground nor Authority from Gods word to do that, as much every way as you have in Infancy to baptize them, which we say is no Baptism at all, much less Christ's true Baptism, therefore God thereby oblieged them not to do what you speak, but it is their Duty when grown up, if God gives them Faith to cast it away as an humane Tradition, and to enter into God's Holy Baptismal Covenant as Believers, according to Christ's great Commission.