A47591:1471
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.
4. Moreover, I desire all those Parents who baptize their Children, and you also, to consider in the fear of ⟨p. 268⟩God, the natural tendency and Consequences of your bringing poor Babes into such a Covenant.
1. That you force them to enter into this Covenant without any Authority or Command from God; for I challenge you and all pedobaptists in the World to prove God hath any where directly or indirectly, required any such thing at your Hands.
2. Consider that 'tis not only a reformation of Life, or a bare refraining from the gross acts of sin, that you assert, is comprehended in this Baptismal Covenant, you cause Infants to enter into; but it is Regeneration it self, i. e. a change of Heart, and savingly to believe in Christ; this you oblige your poor Babes to perform. Now what Arminianism is here fomented, if once you say or think, they are capable to perform this Obligation? but if they do not do it, woe be to them.
2. Consider that 'tis not only a reformation of Life, or a bare refraining from the gross acts of sin, that you assert, is comprehended in this Baptismal Covenant, you cause Infants to enter into; but it is Regeneration it self, i. e. a change of Heart, and savingly to believe in Christ; this you oblige your poor Babes to perform. Now what Arminianism is here fomented, if once you say or think, they are capable to perform this Obligation? but if they do not do it, wo be to them.