A47591:1345
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.
2. They are guilty; you say, of great Sin, by profaning the Ordinance of Christ; is it a small thing to profane Sacred Things, although some do so through ignorance, Baptism is a sacred thing which ought to be received but once, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism; Eph. 4. 4. therefore those that renew their Baptism, take, the name of God in Vain, &c.
2. They are guilty; you say, of great Sin, by prophaning the Ordinance of Christ; is it a small thing to prophane Sacred Things, although some do so through ignorance, Baptism is a sacred thing which ought to be received but once, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism; Eph. 4. 4. therefore those that renew their Baptism, take, the name of God in Vain, &c.
Answ. I answer, is it not a great Sin to change the Holy Ordinance of Christ from Baptism to Rantism; or in English, from dipping the whole Body in Water, to the sprinkling a little Water on the Face, and to change the true Subject from a Believer to an Infant; is not this to profane a most holy Ordinance and a sacred Thing? and 'tis no doubt a great Evil, though done ignorantly, because you sprinkle them into the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy-Ghost, without his Authority, God never commanded it at your Hands; is not this to profane his most Holy and Sacred Name, and since it appears there is but one Baptism in Water; and you cannot deny, but do own Believers Baptism was at first instituted and appointed of Christ; it plainly then follows, that Infant Baptism is none of Christs Institution, 'tis no Baptism of Christ, 'tis not that one Baptism he appointed and ordained, we own but one Baptism, and that is the Baptism of Believers; if you have got another, look you to that, for there is but one Lord, one Faith, and one Baptism, Eph. 4. 4.
Answ. I answer, is it not a great Sin to change the Holy Ordinance of Christ from Baptism to Rantism; or in English, from dipping the whole Body in Water, to the sprinkling a little Water on the Face, and to change the true Subject from a Believer to an Infant; is not this to prophane a most holy Ordinance and a sacred Thing? and 'tis no doubt a great Evil, though done ignorantly, because you sprinkle them into the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy-Ghost, without his Authority, God never commanded it at your Hands; is not this to prophane his most Holy and Sacred Name, and since it appears there is but one Baptism in Water; and you cannot deny, but do own Believers Baptism was at first instituted and appointed of Christ; it plainly then follows, that Infant Baptism is none of Christs Institution, 'tis no Baptism of Christ, 'tis not that one Baptism he appointed and ordained, we own but one Baptism, and that is the Baptism of Believers; if you have got another, look you to that, for there is but one Lord, one Faith, and one Baptism,