A47591:1453
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. Mr. Burkitt saith, 'Tis great advantage to Infants, as 'tis an Act of restipulation, that is, saith he, a Child at baptism enters into Covenant with God.
Answ. I answer, Poor Babes, 'tis without their knowledge and consent, or God's appointment, which is worst of all, or they being able to perform it then, nor many of them ever after, God never giving them his Grace so to do. But woe to them if they do not perform this Covenant, if Mr. Burkitt and Mr. Daniel Williams say true; he 1says in his Catechism as followeth, That those Children who perform not their Baptismal Covenant do.
Answ. I answer, Poor Babes, 'tis without their knowledge and consent, or God's appointment, which is worst of all, or they being able to perform it then, nor many of them ever after, God never giving them his Grace so to do. But wo to them if they do not perform this Covenant, if Mr. Burkitt and Mr. Daniel Williams say true; he 1says in his Catechism as followeth, That those Children who perform not their Baptismal Covenant do.
- 1Mr. Daniel Williams in his Book called the vanity of youth. page 131.
1. They reject Christ. 2d. They renounce the Blessings of the Gospel. 3dly. that 'tis Rebellion against their Maker. 4thly. That 'tis ingratitude and perjury against their Redeemer. 5thly. Gross injustice to their Parents. 6thly. That 'tis self-killing Cruelty to their own Souls. 7thly. 'Tis (he saith) a damning Sin, nay its the heart of all Sin.