A47591:1370
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. God hath as much cast out the Sons of his Gospel Ministers (as such) from having any part in the Ministry, which you know they had under the Law: For every Son of a Priest, when grown up, was of the Priesthood, and this is denied to our Sons as such. Another may say, what Sin have our Sons committed, that this great privilege is denied them, since Christ came? Also, why should not our Children have the promise of an External Canaan, as the Jewish Children had under the Law, what have they done to procure this loss.
2. God hath as much cast out the Sons of his Gospel Ministers (as such) from having any part in the Ministry, which you know they had under the Law: For every Son of a Priest, when grown up, was of the Priesthood, and this is denyed to our Sons as such. Another may say, what Sin have our Sons committed, that this great priviledge is denyed them, since Christ came? Also, why should not our Children have the promise of an External Canaan, as the Jewish Children had under the Law, what have they done to procure this loss.
3. We do not deny Infants the same privileges and place in the Covenant of Grace, which they ever had, no God forbid; our Children have every way (no doubt) like place in that Covenant which the Children of the faithful had under the Law, even them and all them of our Children, that have the saving blessings of Christ Merits, and of the said unchangeable and eternal Covenant, but we say they are not in the Covenant of peculiarity God made with Abraham's Natural Seed as such; and so partake not of the external Rites and Privileges of the Gospel Church, or New Creation, until they do believe or are called by the Lord according to that promise you cite, Acts 2. 39.
3. We do not deny Infants the same priviledges and place in the Covenant of Grace, which they ever had, no God forbid; our Children have every way (no doubt) like place in that Covenant which the Children of the faithful had under the Law, even them and all them of our Children, that have the saving blessings of Christ Merits, and of the said unchangeable and eternal Covenant, but we say they are not in the Covenant of peculiarity God made with Abrahams Natural Seed as such; and so partake not of the external Rites and Priviledges of the Gospel Church, or New Creation, until they do believe or are called by the Lord according to that promise you cite,