A47591:1491
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. Will Pedo-Baptists make Baptism their Saviour? Can Baptism save them, And is it so indeed? Is it in the power of Parents to save or damn their Children? And how came Baptism to have such power in it? or who made that a Channel of Grace to ⟨p. 272⟩dying Infants? Do you not place that Virtue in an external Rite, that only belongs to the Blood of Christ, and sanctifying Grace of God's Spirit? Mr. Perkins *saith, That Baptism indeed saveth, but saith he, that is not the Baptism of Water, but the stipulation of a good Conscience by the Resurrection. Again he saith, the outward Baptism without the inward, is no mark of God's Child, but the mark of a Fool, that makes a Vow, and afterwards breaks it.
- *Perkins on Gal. c. 3. p. 256.
5. May not this Doctrine of theirs, clearly tend to scare and affright poor Parents with fear, that all their Babes that dye in their Mothers Womb, or before baptized, are damned? And Oh, in what a sad Condition are all the Children of the ungodly and impious Persons, whose little Babes you dare not, cannot Baptise, if you are true to your own Principles? But that Text may give us better ground of Hopes a Thousand times, concerning the well being of our dying Infants, where our Saviour saith, for of such are the Kingdom of Heaven; and that also which you mention, I shall go to him, he shall not return to me; together with the infinite Mercy of God, through the virtue of Christ's Blood, who can convey help and healing to dying Infants and Idiots, in ways we know not of, nor are we to trouble our Selves about such secret things that are not revealed.
5. May not this Doctrine of theirs, clearly tend to scare and affright poor Parents with fear, that all their Babes that dye in their Mothers Womb, or before baptized, are damned? And Oh, in what a sad Condition are all the Children of the ungodly and impious Persons, whose little Babes you dare not, cannot Baptise, if you are true to your own Principles? But that Text may give us better ground of Hopes a Thousand times, concerning the well being of our dying Infants, where our Saviour saith, for of such are the Kingdom of Heaven; and that also which you mention, I shall go to him, he shall not return to me; together with the infinite Mercy of God, through the virtue of Christ's Blood, who can convey help and healing to dying Infants and Ideots, in ways we know not of, nor are we to trouble our Selves about such secret things that are not revealed.