A47591:1464
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.
Answ. He may after this rate bring them under an hundred Engagements and Covenants, which may be more plausible ones too: may you not when they know what they do, make them take a Solemn Oath? or enter into Bonds upon pain of severe Punishment, that they shall not yield to Temptations, and pretend 'tis God's Law they should do so, which if you can deceive their Judgments, they will dread as much, (nay it may be more) the breaking those Oaths and Covenants, then this you bring them into, without any authority from Jesus Christ.
3. Mr. Burkitt saith, Baptism in Infancy is more advantageous then at riper years, as it is an early remedy against the malady of Original sin.
Answ. Speak, Doth Baptism take away Original sin, or free them from that Malady or not? you know some of the Ancient Fathers were carried away with such a dream; how comes it to pass then, that this contagion appears so soon, and to be as strong in your Children as in ours, who never were Baptized at all? But does not St. Peter tell you (1. Pet. 3. 20.) Baptism washes not away the filth of the Flesh; Or is not Original Pollution a filth of the Flesh? What stuff is this you would force upon us and the World? we affirm Infants are no more capable of this Ordinance then any other. Why do you say of no Right but this? we challenge all the World by God's Word, to prove that they are capable of Baptism, any more then of the Lords Supper.
Answ. Speak, Doth Baptism take away Original sin, or free them from that Malady or not? you know some of the Antient Fathers were carryed away with such a dream; how comes it to pass then, that this contagion appears so soon, and to be as strong in your Children as in ours, who never were Baptized at all? But does not St. Peter tell you (