A47591:1384
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.
6. It is true that those that deny Infant baptism, deny the Communion of the National Church, of which perhaps they were once Members, but this is not to make a division in the Mystical Body of Christ; nor in a true Constituted Gospel Church. 'Tis a duty to come out from every false Church, Come out of her• my People, Rev. 18. 4.
6. It is true that those that deny Infant baptism, deny the Communion of the National Church, of which perhaps they were once Members, but this is not to make a division in the Mistical Body of Christ; nor in a true Constituted Gospel Church. 'Tis a duty to come out from every false Church, Come out of her• my People, Rev. 18. 4.
7. If baptism be that Ordinance that Unites us into the true Visible Church, and Christs baptism be that of Believers, then Mr. Owen in denying of believers baptism, (which I have proved is that one baptism) is as much guilty of Sin in hindering that Union (by obstructing as much as in him lieth, Believers to be baptized, and so Unite them to the said true Visible Church of ⟨p. 252⟩Christ) as those that divide from it; and is this a small sin, but Believers baptism is that Uniting Ordinance, without baptism upon profession of Faith, no Person according to the rule of the Gospel can be United to a true Visible Church of Christ, It is a dangerous thing to hinder persons from Joining with a true Church, as renting from it, but so it is not for leaving of a false Church.
7. If baptism be that Ordinance that Unites us into the true Visible Church, and Christs baptism be that of Believers, then Mr. Owen in denying of believers baptism, (which I have proved is that one baptism) is as much guilty of Sin in hindring that Union (by obstructing as much as in him lieth, Believers to be baptized, and so Unite them to the said true Visible Church of