A47591:1501
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.
7. Can an humane Rite or Tradition, think you, save poor Children, or a little Water sprinkled on the Face, wash away Original Sin? Or will God bless a Tradition of Man.
8. Can Water beget Children to Christ, or can that be useful to them, which they have only the bare sign of, and not the thing signified, viz. the Sign of Regeneration, but not Regeneration it self, a sign of Grace, but not Grace it self? you give them the Shell, but no Kernel; the name of a Christian, but no nature of a Christian, making that you call Christ's Baptism, (as Dr. Taylor saith,) a sign without effect, and like the Fig-tree in the Gospel, full of Leaves, but no Fruit.
8. Can Water beget Children to Christ, or can that be useful to them, which they have only the bare sign of, and not the thing signified, viz. the Sign of Regeneration, but not Regeneration it self, a sign of Grace, but not Grace it self? you give them the Shell, but no Kernel; the name of a Christian, but no nature of a Christian, making that you call Christ's Baptism, (as Dr. Taylorsaith,) a sign without effect, and like the Fig-tree in the Gospel, full of Leaves, but no Fruit.
9. Can that be useful that tends to make the Gospel Church National, (and confounds the Church and the World together) which ought to be Congregational, a holy and separate People, like a Garden enclosed?