A47591:1378
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.
Thou art guilty of a great Sin (say you) by making a division in the Body of Jesus Christ, there is one Body and one Baptism, Eph. 4. 4, […] And they cannot be divided, whereas by denying of the first Baptism thou breakest the Unity of that Body, to the which Christ is Head, thou breakest thy self off from the Vine, and witherest as an unfruitful Branch, which will not be better although it be Watered again; thou breakest thy self off not from this Congregation or another only; but from the Universal Catholic Church in every Age and Country upon the Face of the Earth, which is cleansed with the washing of Water through the Word, Eph. 5. 26. and continuing in the Union of Baptism. Canst thou think this to be a small sin for thee to rent thy self from the Body of Christ, though stolen Water be sweet at this time, and Bread eaten in secret be pleasant. Know and see that it will be evil and bitter in the end, for thee to cast thy self out of the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and ground of Truth.
Thou art guilty of a great Sin (say you) by making a division in the Body of Jesus Christ, there is one Body and one Baptism, Eph. 4. 4, 〈…〉 And they cannot be divided, whereas by denying of the first Baptism thou breakest the Unity of that Body, to the which Christ is Head, thou breakest thy self off from the Vine, and witherest as an unfruitful Branch, which will not be better although it be Watered again; thou breakest thy self off not from this Congregation or another only; but from the Universal Catholick Church in every Age and Countrey upon the Face of the Earth, which is cleansed with the washing of Water through the Word, Eph. 5. 26. and continuing in the Union of Baptism. Canst thou think this to be a small sin for thee to rent thy self from the Body of Christ, though stolen Water be sweet at this time, and Bread eaten in secret be pleasant. Know and see that it will be evil and bitter in the end, for thee to cast thy self out of the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and ground of Truth.