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…

2. Is it not sad, that Men should give cause to their Children to think they are guilty of Perjury? when in truth they never were, nor of Apostasy from God upon that account. Our first Apostasy was bad enough, you need not go about to make them guilty of another. Alas! their pretended baptism never brought them one step nearer to God, then those Children are, who were never Baptized in their Infancy at all, where then is the Apostasy he speaks of.

2. Is it not sad, that Men should give cause to their Children to think they are guilty of Perjury? when in truth they never were, nor of Apostacy from God upon that account. Our first Apostacy was bad enough, you need not go about to make them guilty of another. Alas! their pretended baptism never brought them one step nearer to God, then those Children are, who were never Baptized in their Infancy at all, where then is the Apostacy he speaks of.

3. You hereby bring them under necessity of committing the Sin of Perjury, and of Apostasy, at leastwise in your own conceit, and in others too, if they can believe what this Man says, and so to cause them to mourn for that, or those sins most, which may be (if all things were rightly con•'d) are no sins at all. I do not mean that any of t• actual transgressions may not be sin; but that they are not guilty of Perjury and Apostasy, by breaking that you call their Baptismal Covenant: For if God brought them not into that Covenant, nor into any Covenant relation with himself thereby, I cannot see how there should be such a sting in the Tail of it, as he affirms, and indeed, had they themselves, of their own accord and consent, entered into an unlawful or an unwarrantable Covenant which they were no ways able to perform, it may be doubted whether it would be Perjury in them if they kept it not, besides, I hope they have not forsworn themselves, how then is it Perjury?

3. You hereby bring them under necessity of committing the Sin of Perjury, and of Apostacy, at leastwise in your own conceit, and in others too, if they can believe what this Man says, and so to cause them to mourn for that, or those sins most, which may be (if all things were rightly con'd) are no sins at all. I do not mean that any of t actual transgressions may not be sin; but that they are not guilty of Perjury and Apostacy, by breaking that you call their Baptismal Covenant: For if God brought them not into that Covenant, nor into any Covenant relation with himself thereby, I cannot see how there should be such a sting in the Tayl of it, as he affirms, and indeed, had they themselves, of their own accord and consent, entered into an unlawful or an unwarrantable Covenant which they were no ways able to perform, it may be doubted whether it would be Perjury in them if they kept it not, besides, I hope they have not forsworn themselves, how then is it Perjury?