A47591:1570
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. Those that are baptized should understand the Nature of that Obligation before they enter into that Covenant.
2. The end of Baptism was Ordained by Christ to show that the Person baptized is born again, is dead to sin, not that he ought, or is bound afterwards to be Born again; no no, but after he is baptized he is obliged thereby to walk in newness of life. You by baptizing Infants invert the design and end of Baptism; how should your Children understand this Obligation, when their Parents and Ministers are so ignorant about the nature of that Obligation themselves?
2. The end of Baptism was Ordained by Christ to shew that the Person baptized is born again, is dead to sin, not that he ought, or is bound afterwards to be Born again; no no, but after he is baptized he is obliged thereby to walk in newness of life. You by baptizing Infants invert the design and end of Baptism; how should your Children understand this Obligation, when their Parents and Ministers are so ignorant about the nature of that Obligation themselves?
3. Believers do thus take God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in baptism, to be their God, but so do not Infants by any appointment of God.