A47591:1601
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. Were not little Children (say you) the first Martyrs that lost their Lives for the sake of Christ, Mat. 2. 16. If God Honoured them to be the first Witnesses for Christ, being baptized in Blood, will he deny them water Baptism.
1. Answ. Were they only the Children of Believers that Herod Murdered, how will you prove that? but suppose it was so, doth it follow from thence, that we ought to baptize them without a Command; why do you not say, and will not Christ allow our Children the Ordinance that holds forth the Shedding of his Blood, as well as Baptism, that holds forth he was Buried, &c.
1. Answ. Were they only the Children of Believers that Herod Murthered, how will you prove that? but suppose it was so, doth it follow from thence, that we ought to baptize them without a Command; why do you not say, and will not Christ allow our Children the Ordinance that holds forth the Shedding of his Blood, as well as Baptism, that holds forth he was Buried, &c.
4. If the Baptism of Infants be evil, why doth the Devil (say you) Tempt Witches or Sorcerers to deny that Baptism? And what is the reason that Satan cannot have any power over them, until they renounce their Baptism, and after that they have not any strength to resist him any longer, as several of them confessed. Park. of Witches Vol. 3. page 640.