A47591:1562
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. I have proved that our Children as such, are not Members of the visible Church; no, nor ought any of the Children of Believers to be taken into it, but such that believe that repent, or that are born again.
2. If any others, viz. such that are not regenerated are taken into the visible Church, whether Infants or Adult Persons, 'tis not by God's appointment, and therefore such have no right to the Special and Spiritual promises of God, which are the peculiar inheritance of the elect of God.
3. The visible Church of the Jews as so considered, had many external promises belonging to them, that is not denied, which the Gentile Church hath no right unto; but the whole Jewish Church, or all her visible Members had not a right to the Spiritual Promises of God, They are not all Israel that are of Israel, Rom. 9. 6. ⟨p. 283⟩neither because they are Seed of Abraham, are they all Children, vers. 7. that is they are the Children of the Flesh, these are not the Children of God, but the Children of the Promise are counted for the Seed, vers. 8. You mention the 4 Verse, but mention not the Verses I have cited, which open the 4th verse, and thus you go about to give a false Exposition of the Scripture, and deceive the understanding of your poor Children, and others also.
3. The visible Church of the Jews as so considered, had many external promises belonging to them, that is not deny'd, which the Gentile Church hath no right unto; but the whole Jewish Church, or all her visible Members had not a right to the Spiritual Promises of God, They are not all Israel that are of Israel,