A47591:1609
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. Ask Mr. Owen, whether there are not more People that were Baptized, or rather Rantized in Infancy, that prove vile and ungodly, then among them that were baptized upon the profession of their Faith.
2. What assurance can he give to Infants, or to their Parents that the Children they baptize shall be better Christians thereby? Also how will he prove that the Children of believers who were baptized in Infancy, prove generally better Christians then the Children of those Believers that did not baptise them in their Infancy.
3. Ask him if the baptism of believers upon the profession of their Faith (as Christ commanded) be the worse because some, like Simon Magus, take it up, and prove ill Members and scandalous in their Lives.
1. Say you, tho' they are Members of a Congregation, walking by the Rule of the Gospel, before they had their re-baptization, they after break the Unity of the Body they were Members of, by separating themselves, Baptism is an Ordinance of Unity, but re-baptization is the breaking off the Unity of Churches.