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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.
3dly. You say, Water-Baptism, i. e. the Washing of the Flesh, signifies the Washing of the Spirit, and therefore the Apostle Peter saith, Even Baptism doth now save us, not the putting away the Filth of the Flesh, but the answer of a good Conscience towards God, by the Resurrection of Christ.
Answ. I answer, you confound Regeneration with Baptism; the washing of Regeneration is not the washing of Baptism: Baptism regenerates no Person. But you seem to follow the ancient erroneous Fathers who concluded no Person could be saved unless baptized, abusing that Text Joh. 3. 5. Unless a Man be born again of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; taking Water there for Baptism. In like sort they abused that Text John 6. 53. Except ye eat the Flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his Blood, ye have no Life in you; and from thence they gave Infants the Lord's Supper also.
Answ. I answer, you confound Regeneration with Baptism; the washing of Regeneration is not the washing of Baptism: Baptism regenerates no Person. But you seem to follow the antient erroneous Fathers who concluded no Person could be saved unless baptized, abusing that Text Joh. 3. 5. Unless a Man be born again of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; taking Water there for Baptism. In like sort they abused that Text John 6. 53. Except ye eat the Flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his Blood, ye have no Life in you; and from thence they gave Infants the Lord's Supper also.