A47591:1353
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.
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?
Answ; Let Christ receive whom he pleases, He will have mercy upon whom he will have mercy, And receive and Bless, whom he will receive and Bless; no doubt his Sovereign Grace is extended to many of the Children ⟨p. 244⟩of the Faithful now as formerly, but what of this, because he healed some little Children in the days of his Flesh, of their Bodily Distempers, Will you therefore baptize them without any Authority received from him, you may if you please as well argue thus, viz. Jesus Christ Fed many little Children with Temporal Food, when he Fed the multitude, therefore they must come to the Lords Table, and be fed with Spiritual Food: Is this to argue like a Man of Wisdom and Learning.
3. They are guilty (you say) of Pride, thus you charge those that deny Infant Baptism. The humble submitteth to every Revelation of the Will of God; (say you) God hath left divers things obscure in the Scripture, that we might search them, and judge humbly of our Selves, who know things only in part, seeing through a Glass, in a parable; Is it not great pride, that a simple Man should take upon him to teach God, how to speak in his Word, let the Lord speak his Mind clearer about Children's Baptism, or else we will note believe him, say some, is not this a proud reasoning of the Heart of Man? The humble Heart searcheth the Scriptures, and considereth the agreement of one Scripture with another, believing the consistency of the Old Testament with the new, and fearing every untrodden Path, there be great Truths as secret Treasure in the field of the Scripture, which the Humble searcheth and findeth, but the Proud despiseth and comes short thereof.