A47591:1479
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. That all Believers, God himself doth require or Command in his Word to enter into this Baptismal Covenant.
2. And they before they enter into it, have a principle of divine life infused into their Soul, or Grace implanted in their Hearts, having passed under the work of Regeneration, being dead to Si• (of which Baptism is a lively Symbol) or is as your Church says, an outward sign of an inward spiritual Grace. Not as Mr. Baxter observes, a Sign or Symbol of future, but of present Regeneration, which is confirmed by what St. Paul Teaches, Rom. 6. 3, 4.
2. And they before they enter into it, have a principle of divine life infused into their Soul, or Grace implanted in their Hearts, having passed under the work of Regeneration, being dead to Si• (of which Baptism is a lively Symboll) or is as your Church says, an outward sign of an inward spiritual Grace. Not as Mr. Baxter observes, a Sign or Simbol of future, but of present Regeneration, which is confirmed by what St. Paul Teaches, Rom. 6. 3, 4.
2. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? not may be dead, but are dead, and so Buried with Christ in Baptism, verse 3. 4. If you say all Adult Persons Baptized are not Converted, I answer, they appear so to be, and as such voluntarily enter into this Covenant: Besides God does not require them without Faith to do it. Baptism doth not only represent the Death and Burial of Christ, but also signifies our Death to Sin, or that Blessed work of Mortification or the remainder of the Body of Sin and Death, by which means Believers who enter into this Baptismal Covenant are put into a Gracious and Meet Capacity to perform that Sacred Obligation; but so are not Infants.