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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.
Remark. Still, Reader, know that it is a Bond to the Adult only, Infants are not able to die to Sin, nor live unto Holiness: They cannot answer a good Conscience by the Resurrection of Christ from the dead. Ordinances have no more Virtue in them to an Infant, than if you should water a dead Tree. There can be no increase in Holiness without the Grace of Holiness in the Habit be first infused; and if the Seed of Holiness be [first] infused in Infants before Baptism, or in Baptism, that Seed would remain in them, and appear as soon as they come to Understanding, 1 Joh. 3. 9. But that any such Seed or vital Principle is either way in Infants as such, whether Infants of Believers, or others, appears not; but contrary-wise, nothing appears in them when grown up, but the cursed Seed of Sin, and so it will until their Natures be changed by Divine Grace.
4thly. You say, Baptism is a sign of Union with Christ, we were baptized into him: For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ; Gal. 3. 27. Again, the Apostle saith, We are all baptized into one Body, 1 Cor. 12. 13. Christ is the Head of the Body, the Faithful are the Members, those that are in everlasting Union with him, which is signified in Baptism: Can they desire to be in one Body with Christ, who are not willing to be baptized into this Union?
Remark. Have Infants, as such, Union with Christ? If they have, they would all partake of the Blessings of that Union, and be all saved, because the Branch that is savingly united to the Vine Christ, partakes of the Virtue that is in him; and it is an indissoluble Union, like that between the Father and the Son,