A47591:1487
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. Baptism administered in Infancy, hath, saith Mr. Burkitt, this singular advantage above that which is administered at riper Age, in that it gives the pious Parent a good Ground and Hope that his Children dying in Infancy, are certainly saved, it makes (say you) that Ordinance a Channel of Grace, &c.
5. Baptism administred in Infancy, hath, saith Mr. Burkitt, this singular advantage above that which is administred at riper Age, in that it gives the pious Parent a good Ground and Hope that his Children dying in Infancy, are certainly saved, it makes (say you) that Ordinance a Channel of Grace, &c.
1. Answ. This is like to the rest. But Sir, by what Authority do you assert all these things? You know what wonderful Virtue the Papists say, is in many of their Popish Rites, Ceremonies and Relics, i. e. in their crossing of themselves, and in their Holy-water, especially in their Agnns Dei. But how do they prove it? Even as well as you do, what you speak here upon this account, and we have the same reason to believe them, as to believe you in what you speak, without Proof or Authority from God's word.
1. Answ. This is like to the rest. But Sir, by what Authority do you assert all these things? You know what wonderful Vertue the Papists say, is in many of their Popish Rites, Ceremonies and Reliques, i. e. in their crossing of themselves, and in their Holy-water, especially in their Agnns Dei. But how do they prove it? Even as well as you do, what you speak here upon this account, and we have the same reason to believe them, as to believe you in what you speak, without Proof or Authority from God's word.