A47591:1379
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.
1. Answ. I answer until I came hither in your Book, I did not fully perceive your bitter Spirit. O that God would appear and give you a better temper of Heart: Who is uncharitable now, if Charity be the Bond of perfectness? How imperfect is my Brother Owen? Must we all who deny Infant Baptism, be Condemned as utter ⟨p. 250⟩cast aways, and not be looked upon so much as Members of the Universal Church? 'Tis well, it is not in your power to reprobate us and our Children.
1. Answ. I answer untill I came hither in your Book, I did not fully perceive your bitter Spirit. O that God would appear and give you a better temper of Heart: Who is uncharitable now, if Charity be the Bond of perfectness? How imperfect is my Brother Owen? Must we all who deny Infant Baptism, be Condemned as utter ⟨p. 250⟩cast aways, and not be lookt upon so much as Members of the Universal Church? 'Tis well, it is not in your power to reprobate us and our Children.
2. But stay a little, are all that own Infant Baptism, or have been baptized in every Age and Nation of the Earth, the Body of Christ, and Church of the living God? Do you indeed own the Popish Church, or is not the Church of Rome in your Judgment, however part of the Body of Christ? And are not you in Union with that Church, and all Churches that own Infant Baptism in the World? it followeth it must be so. I think 'tis time for you, most Worthy Britons, to have a Jealous Eye towards this Man, for if he be not in actual Communion with the Church of Rome, yet his principles lead him out so to be; for he seems to own all the Churches to be the Body of Christ, who were and are baptized in Infancy, nay, and that those Churches, and none but them to make up the whole Mystical Universal Church of God. He seems to reprobate all those Christians that deny Infant Baptism, or are disjoined from his Universal Catholic Church of baptized Infants. I know his Reverend Brethren in London, are Men of more Charity, and abhor such positions as he now lays down. I cannot think that his principles allow Salvation to any that are not in Union with the visible Universal Church that own Infant baptism, 'tis time to thrw this Idol away.