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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.
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, Mark 16. 16. it doth not say, he that is baptized and believeth. If thou believest with all thy Heart thou mayst: Not if thou shalt believe hereafter, but if thou dost believe now. It appertains to such who have Faith when baptized, and it evidences such a Faith to the Person; nay Faith is required of them before they are to be baptized. And so saith the Church of England.
3dly. You say, It is the Bond of Holiness, 1 Pet. 3. 21. the Apostle exhorts the Christians to be dead unto Sin, and alive unto Righteousness. There is a Virtue in the Ordinances of God answerable to the End for which they are ordained, &c.