A47591:1347
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. They are (you say) guilty of unbelief, unless God telleth them in totidem verbis, baptize your Children, they will believe not, Faith looketh upon every beck of the Lord, the least appearance of his Will, the Woman which had the bloody Issue believed, if ⟨p. 242⟩she could but touch the Garment of the Lord Jesus, she should be whole, though she had neither a Promise, nor Command, nor a particular Example provoking her in so doing, &c.
Ans. I answer, will you charge us with unbelief, because we cannot believe that to be a Truth, for which we have neither Command nor Example, nor for which there can be no good Consequence nor Inference drawn from any Text of Scripture, nor in doing of which we have no promise, nor are they which do it under any threatening in all the book of God? this seems very strange, must we believe Infant Baptism, because you and others say it is a Truth, by the same argument we must or may believe all Popish Rites, devised Fables and Ceremonies, what innovations may not your Faith take hold of according to what you speak here, is there no difference in believing in Christ in things respecting matters of Faith, which directly lie under his Promise, and believing things which are matter of Practice, which depends wholly upon Christ's mere positive Command? we must have some Ground or Foundation from God's Word to believe 'tis a Truth, which you blame us for not believing; and we declare that we see we have no Ground, no Foundation to build our Faith nor Practice upon, in the case of Infant Baptism, and are we guilty of unbelief from hence, what Divinity is this you preach and publish to the World, you would have us act upon an implicit Faith, or believe as the Church believes, do you not talk like a Son of the Church of Rome?
Ans. I answer, will you charge us with unbelief, because we cannot believe that to be a Truth, for which we have neither Command nor Example, nor for which there can be no good Consequence nor Inference drawn from any Text of Scripture, nor in doing of which we have no promise, nor are they which do it under any threatning in all the book of God? this seems very strange, must we believe Infant Baptism, because you and others say it is a Truth, by the same argument we must or may believe all Popish Rites, divised Fables and Ceremonies, what innovations may not your Faith take hold of according to what you speak here, is there no difference in believing in Christ in things respecting matters of Faith, which directly lie under his Promise, and believing things which are matter of Practice, which depends wholly upon Christ's mere positive Command? we must have some Ground or Foundation from God's Word to believe 'tis a Truth, which you blame us for not believing; and we declare that we see we have no Ground, no Foundation to build our Faith nor Practice upon, in the case of Infant Baptism, and are we guilty of unbelief from hence, what Divinity is this you preach and publish to the World, you would have us act upon an implicite Faith, or believe as the Church believes, do you not talk like a Son of the Church of Rome?