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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.
CHAP. XXIII.
In answer to Mr. James Owens 19th Chapter wherein he gives advice to Children, with an answer to his Queries, that he would have the Antipedobaptists to reply unto.
Children, bless the Lord for the privileges of your Baptism, God hath taken you into Covenant (say you) with your Parents, he hath prevented you with the blessings of goodness, and made you nigh, who being by Nature a far off, ye are no more Strangers and Foreigners, but fellow Citizens with the Saints and the Household of God, Eph. 2. 19.
CHildren, bless the Lord for the priviledges of your Baptism, God hath taken you into Covenant (say you) with your Parents, he hath prevented you with the blessings of goodness, and made you nigh, who being by Nature a far off, ye are no more Strangers and Foreigners, but fellow Citizens with the Saints and the Houshold of God, Eph. 2. 19.
1. Answ. Must they bless God that their Parents deceived them with false hopes of privileges, which neither they nor your selves know what they are, or for putting a cheat upon them to make them think their State is better thereby, and yet cannot prove it from Gods Word so to be. How doth God prevent them with blessings of Goodness, by your Rantizing them? doth your pretended baptism infuse grace or