A47591:1574
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.
3. As soon as ye come to Age and Understanding renew your Covenant with God, the Lord hath received in his Covenant the Faith of your Parents for you in your Infancy, but now ye are of Years, if ye your selves will not believe and repent, and take God to be a God unto you, your baptism will not longer benefit you, &c.
Answ. I answer if it be thus your Children are not much beholding to their Parents Faith, nor to Covenant ⟨p. 285⟩Grace, you tell them when their Parents believed and were saved, all their Children were saved, and in covenant with them; but it appears now this only served for their Infant State, they may fall out of the Covenant of Grace, and be damned, notwithstanding their being once in the covenant of Grace, and saved with their Parents; unless they do actually believe, &c.
2. But if they had dyed in their Infancy, perhaps they would have perished, had not their Parents believed, is this your meaning; certainly if they are such that are Elected they shall be Saved, tho' they had dyed in Infancy, tho' their Parents believed or not believed, doth the Parents believing procure their Salvation, and the Parents not believing obstruct their Children's Salvation, and so bring on them Damnation, if so the Salvation and Damnation of their Children in Infancy, is put into the hands or Faith of their Parents.
2. But if they had dyed in their Infancy, perhaps they would have perished, had not their Parents believed, is this your meaning; certainly if they are such that are Elected they shall be Saved, tho' they had dyed in Infancy, tho' their Parents believed or not believed, doth the Parents believing procure their Salvation, and the Parents not believing obstruct their Childrens Salvation, and so bring on them Damnation, if so the Salvation and Damnation of their Children in Infancy, is put into the hands or Faith of their Parents.