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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. You say Christ hath ordained Baptism to be a Sign of our Repentance, and therefore 'tis called the Baptism of our Repentance, Mark 1. 4. Repentance is a remaining Duty, therefore the Baptism of Repentance is to remain.
Remark. If Baptism be a si•n of Repentance to the Person baptized, then the Person baptized ought to be a Person capable to repent, and when baptized, to have what is signified therein: but Infants as such have not the Grace of Repentance when baptized, so they are not capable to repent.
2dly You say, It is an Evidence of our Faith in Christ, Mark 16. 16. Acts 8. 37, 38. and therefore it is to remain as long as Faith is to remain on the Earth.
Remark. If Baptism is an Evidence of our Faith in Christ, then it must only belong to Believers. How can it be an Evidence of Faith in Infants who are not capable to believe? they know not the Object of Faith, nor can they exert any Act of Faith. It must be an Evidence to the Subject when baptized, and so the Scriptures you cite hold forth: He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved,