A47591:1358
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.
8. We say Infant Baptism is not laid down in the Scripture obscurely or darkly, but do affirm in the holy fear of God, that it is not at all to be found therein; and it may appear to all that you cannot prove that it is, if God never so darkly had declared it, we would receive it, but because he hath neither plainly nor obscurely revealed, That 'tis his Institution, we do reject it, and we shall not be charged with Pride in so doing; 'tis I fear too evident that you are left in this Case by the Lord to believe a lie, and may be because you will not believe nor receive the plain Revelation of the baptism of Believers, tho' no one Truth lies more clear and plain in God's Sacred Word.
8. We say Infant Baptism is not layd down in the Scripture obscurely or darkly, but do affirm in the holy fear of God, that it is not at all to be found therein; and it may appear to all that you cannot prove that it is, if God never so darkly had declared it, we would receive it, but because he hath neither plainly nor obscurely revealed, That 'tis his Institution, we do reject it, and we shall not be charged with Pride in so doing; 'tis I fear too evident that you are left in this Case by the Lord to believe a lie, and may be because you will not believe nor receive the plain Revelation of the baptism of Believers, tho' no one Truth lies more clear and plain in God's Sacred Word.
4. Is it pride in you, because you will not own the Common-Prayer, and the Rite of crossing in Baptism, and God-fathers and God-mothers, these things (you may be) believe not, but not because they are left darkly in the Scripture, but because they are merely human inventions, or not at all to be found in the Scripture.
You say we will not believe, unless you show us some Command or some clear example for Infant Baptism, that it is of God, but if there had not been any Command or Example (although both be for Infant Baptism) if there be Scripture Consequences, showing they ought to be baptized, That is sufficient to satisfy the humble searcher, did not Christ shut the Mouths of the Sadducees about the Resurrection by Scriptural Consequence? Mat, 22. 32.