A47591:1555
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. You must first prove them Members of the Church; and not only Members, but all of them elected Persons, for they are such Members, that the special Providence of God is over.
2. You say they have a share in the daily prayers that are put up for the Church of God. Psalm 72. 15. Prayers shall be made for him, and daily shall he be praised. Psalm 51. 13. Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion and build the Walls of Jerusalem Gal. 6. 16. As many as walk according to this rule, peace on them, and mercy on the Israel of God. If you had been without baptism, you should have been without, and so without any share in these prayers.
Answ. I have put some of the Texts of Scripture down at large that you cite, and doth that Text in Psalm 72. 13. not relate to Jesus Christ personally considered, if not only so, yet Christ mystical, viz. the ⟨p. 282⟩elect Seed, and not to all the Members of the visible Church as such, and so also in the other Scriptures, and dare you thus abuse the Sacred Scriptures, applying these prayers and promises to all your Infants.
Answ. I have put some of the Texts of Scripture down at large that you cite, and doth that Text in