A47591:1443
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. If you pray for them as Members of the visible Church, what ground have you so to do from Gods word, since God in the Gospel times had not made them Members thereof.
2. Can't we pray for our Children, tho' as yet they are not Members, that they may become Members thereof.
2. He saith, by virtue of this admission, they have interest in the special providence of God.
2. He saith, by vertue of this admission, they have interest in the special providence of God.
Answ. No doubt but God doth exercise his special Care and Providence over all Elect Infants, but not the more for your baptizing them without his authority, or Command, much less Infants of Believers as such.