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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.
5thly. You say, Baptism signifieth our Spiritual Birth, the Lord's Supper our Spiritual Growth and Nourishment. This we ⟨p. 2⟩grant also, and therefore we say Baptism cannot belong to Infants, because they are not in an ordinary way capable of Regeneration (tho we deny not that those elect Infants that die, are renewed quoad illorum naturas, but we know not which they are; if we did, yet we ought not to baptize them, because we have no Precept or Precedent so to do: we might therefore as well and by as good Authority, give them the Lord's Supper as Baptism, which the ancient Fathers, when first Pedo-baptism was, by Human Authority, introduced into the Church (you know) did for near four hundred Years, till the latter end of the Sixth Century.)
5thly. You say, Baptism signifieth our Spiritual Birth, the Lord's Supper our Spiritual Growth and Nourishment. This we ⟨p. 2⟩grant also, and therefore we say Baptism cannot belong to Infants, because they are not in an ordinary way capable of Regeneration (tho we deny not that those elect Infants that die, are renewed quoad illorum naturas, but we know not which they are; if we did, yet we ought not to baptize them, because we have no Precept or Precedent so to do: we might therefore as well and by as good Authority, give them the Lord's Supper as B•ptism, which the antient Fathers, when first Pedo-baptism was, by Human Authority, introduced into the Church (you know) did for near four hundred Years, till the latter end of the Sixth Century.)
6thly. You say, Baptism, according to the Signification of the Word, is Washing; and therefore the Apostle saith, saved us by the washing of Regeneration, Tit. 3. 5. [Greek or Hebrew] is rendered, in Heb. 9. 10. in divers Baptisms, those were not only by dipping under Water, but by sprinkling Water on those baptized, as the Apostle teacheth