A47591:1530
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.
3. Bless the Lord for the Covenant of Grace (say you) and for Christ the Mediator of the Covenant, and for Baptism the Seal of that Covenant; Is the extent of the Covenant, a small thing in thy sight, that the living God bindeth himself to thee and thy sinful Seed? Is it a small thing that he should pity them when they were polluted in their blood, that he washed them and entered into a Covenant with them, Ezek. 16. 5. 6.
3. Bless the Lord for the Covenant of Grace (say you) and for Christ the Mediator of the Covenant, and for Baptism the Seal of that Covenant; Is the extent of the Covenant, a small thing in thy sight, that the living God bindeth himself to thee and thy sinful Seed? Is it a small thing that he should pitty them when they were polluted in their blood, that he washed them and entred into a Covenant with them, Ezek. 16. 5. 6.
1. Answ. We have all cause to bless the Lord for the Covenant of Grace, and for Christ the Mediator, both in respect of our selves, and for our Children, but you affirm' that which you cannot prove, viz. that baptism is the Seal of the Covenant of Grace, for hath the Covenant of Grace any other Seal, that Seals to us all the Blessings of that Covenant, save the Holy Spirit only, the Spirit of God is called a Seal, Eph. 1. 13, 14. Chap. 4. 30. but so is not baptism called any where.
2. If all your Children have the Seal of the Covenant of Grace, or all the blessings thereof, sealed up to them, shall they not be all saved? all know a Seal confirms and gives an assurance of all the Privileges, Blessings, and Profits, that are contained in that Covenant, to which it is prefixed.