A47591:1531
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. 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.
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 Priviledges, Blessings, and Profits, that are contained in that Covenant, to which it is prefix'd.
3. You falsely also apply that Text in Ezek. 16. 5, 6, 7. that is not applicable to our Infants as such, but to God's Israel or Believers, who were once like that wretched Infant cast out in its Blood, but God entered into Covenant with us, and washed us, &c. But are all believers Children washed in the Blood of Christ, no doubt they are in the Covenant of Grace that go to Heaven, that die in Infancy; but the rest remain polluted, in their Original, and actual pollution until they believe in Christ Jesus, and are negenerated by Divine Grace, tho' they are baptized, for that washeth them not.