A47591:1575
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.
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.
3. And if this be so, woe to the poor Babes of unbelievers, must they be all Damned? Can't Christ save such Children by his Merits and Righteousness, nor Sanctify them that die in their Infancy, unless their Parents do believe, and baptize them; and dare you say he will not, what strange Doctrine is this; and by what authority do you assert those things which your Doctrine leads you out to do.