A47591:1352
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. Do we destroy the foundation of our Hope, about the State of our Infants, because we dare not baptize them without a word from Christ, or without Authority from him? No Sir, we have ground to hope our Children that Die are as happy as yours, tho' never Baptised; and that from Gods word. Hath not Christ said, Of such are the Kingdom of Heaven, no doubt God hath comprehended Infants in his eternal electing Love that Die, for whom he also gave his Son, and in some secret way doth Sanctify them, or makes them meet for glory above; and we have as much ground to hope, that God will give Grace to those Children of ours that live, as you have to hope he will give Grace to yours. Doth your Baptism save your Infants? Will you say with the Old Erroneous Fathers, and Blind Papists, that Baptism washes away Original Sin? Your expressions look that way, I am afraid of you.
2. Do we destroy the foundation of our Hope, about the State of our Infants, because we dare not baptize them without a word from Christ, or without Authority from him? No Sir, we have ground to hope our Children that Die are as happy as yours, tho' never Baptised; and that from Gods word. Hath not Christ said, Of such are the Kingdom of Heaven, no doubt God hath comprehended Infants in his eternal electing Love that Die, for whom he also gave his Son, and in some secret way doth Sanctifie them, or makes them meet for glory above; and we have as much ground to hope, that God will give Grace to those Children of ours that live, as you have to hope he will give Grace to yours. Doth your Baptism save your Infants? Will you say with the Old Erroneous Fathers, and Blind Papists, that Baptism washes away Original Sin? Your expressions look that way, I am afraid of you.
Ought we not to believe (say you) for our Children, that Christ will receive them? Is he more unready to administer Spiritual Blessings, than he was in administering Temporal Blessings to the Children of the Faithful?
Ought we not to believe (say you) for our Children, that Christ will receive them? Is he more unready to administer Spiritual Blessings, than he was in administring Temporal Blessings to the Children of the Faithful?