A47591:1383
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.
5. I do affirm that, that one Baptism that Unites to the Visible Church (not to the Universal Church) is the Baptism of Believers, and not that of Infants; And to prove it, take this argument. If that Baptism the Apostles administered, and on which they received all Persons into the Visible Church, was the Baptism of the Adult, or that of Believers only; then the baptism of the Adult, or that of Believers only, is that one and first Baptism; but the baptism which the Apostles administered, and on which they received all Persons into the Visible Church, was the baptism of the Adult, or that of Believers only. Ergo, The Baptism of the Adult, or that of Believers, is that one or only Baptism of Christs Visible Church; for those Members of the visible Church in the Primitive times, that were washed in Baptismal Water, professed themselves washed also in Christs Blood, and they that were sincere had the thing signified, as well as the Sign when they were baptized, but Infants never made any such profession, therefore Infant Baptism was not the first and one Baptism that Christ left in his Church.
5. I do affirm that, that one Baptism that Unites to the Visible Church (not to the Universal Church) is the Baptism of Believers, and not that of Infants; And to prove it, take this argument. If that Baptism the Apostles administred, and on which they received all Persons into the Visible Church, was the Baptism of the Adult, or that of Believers only; then the baptism of the Adult, or that of Believers only, is that one and first Baptism; but the baptism which the Apostles administred, and on which they received all Persons into the Visible Church, was the baptism of the Adult, or that of Believers only. Ergo, The Baptism of the Adult, or that of Believers, is that one or only Baptism of Christs Visible Church; for those Members of the visible Church in the Primitive times, that were washed in Baptismal Water, professed themselves washed also in Christs Blood, and they that were sincere had the thing signified, as well as the Sign when they were baptized, but Infants never made any such profession, therefore Infant Baptism was not the first and one Baptism that Christ left in his Church.