A47591:1523
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.
Answ. By whose Authority must they thus do, viz. As soon as their Children are Born, Consecrate them to the Lord. 'Tis not by the Authority of God's Word, therefore a piece of Will Worship. Parents would do well to pray over their Babes, as soon as they are Born, but unless required by Christ to baptize them, they must not do that.
2. Whoever therefore Baptize their Infants, do it only as a Ceremony devised by Man tho' not in their intention, their Consciences being missed.
2. Whoever therefore Baptize their Infants, do it only as a Ceremony divised by Man tho' not in their intention, their Consciences being missed.
You ought (say you) to be serious about their Baptism, as we should be about our own baptism; that which the Child ought to do, if he had been at Age and Understanding, must be done by you for them, even as Mothers when their Children be Sick, take Physic themselves, which the Children ought to take, so that the Child may have the Medicine in his Mothers Milk, even so do ye that which the Child ought to do, if he had been of Age before Baptised.
You ought (say you) to be serious about their Baptism, as we should be about our own baptism; that which the Child ought to do, if he had been at Age and Understanding, must be done by you for them, even as Mothers when their Children be Sick, take Physick themselves, which the Children ought to take, so that the Child may have the Medicine in his Mothers Milk, even so do ye that which the Child ought to do, if he had been of Age before Baptised.