A47591:1517
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.
2. But as to the right use of their Baptism, you your Selves cannot tell what use that can be to them, because 'tis not appointed of God.
3. Did Parents instruct their Children according to the word of God, viz. to believe and get Union with Christ, and not baptize them till they desired it, according to the Scripture, Infant Baptism would soon vanquish.
(1.) You say look to your own right in the Covenant of God, if God is not a God to you, he is not a God to your Seed, &c.
1. Answ. Suppose then that some of those Parents whose Children you baptize, should not be in Covenant with God, what right had their Children to Baptism, is not that Baptism a nullity; it was not thus in the case of Circumcision, if the Parents were Abraham's natural Seed, whether Godly or wicked, they were to Circumcise their Male Children.