A47591:1366
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. Nor can you prove Infants were ever received as Members of the Gospel Church, therefore it is a false Charge to say our Opinion casteth them out or Excommunicates them out of that.
3. Take heed least it be found one day that you are a Man that wants Charity towards Christ himself, who is the only builder of his Gospel Temple, and who did not in his Wisdom think good to take in the fleshly Seed into the Gospel Church as they were received into the Typical and legal Church of the Jews.
You intimate that we have Excommunicated them, and that without a Cause, before they had done any thing for to merit this hard Judgment, is not this (say you) an uncharitable Opinion which denieth them the same place in the Covenant of Grace under the Gospel, as they had under the Law, is not that an uncharitable ⟨p. 247⟩Opinion which maketh their condition worser, since the coming of Christ then it was before? in short, is it not (say you) an uncharitable Judgment, which deny s them a share in the promise, Acts 2. 39. is not God a God unto the Seed of the Faithful, what, hope then can we have of their Salvation.
You intimate that we have Excommunicated them, and that without a Cause, before they had done any thing for to merit this hard Judgment, is not this (say you) an uncharitable Opinion which denyeth them the same place in the Covenant of Grace under the Gospel, as they had under the Law, is not that an uncharitable ⟨p. 247⟩