A47591:1612
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. 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.
1. Answ. Why do you use such Tautologies and needless repetitions, you had this before, and I have answered it, we deny our baptism to be re-baptization, and have proved your Rantism is no Baptism at all.
1. Answ. Why do you use such Tautologies and needless repetitions, you had this before, and I have answered it, we deny our baptism to be re-baptization, and have proyed your Rantism is no Baptism at all.
2. Infant Rantism, 'tis true, Unites National Churches, and Churches Built upon that, or the like Constitution, and so it Unites many false and Anti-christian Churches I must confess, as the Church of Rome, and ⟨p. 291⟩some others in the World, much of the same nature; but 'tis the baptism of Christ, viz. that of believers that Unites together, according to the order of the Gospel, all the Members of a true Gospel Church; and the denying of Infant baptism, and being baptized upon a profession of Faith, does but break the Union of Churches of the Saints, that are formerly true and orderly gathered, according to the Institution of Christ, and the rule of the Gospel: For was not the first Gospel Church at Jerusalem, gathered out of the National Church of the Jews, of Persons that repented, believed, and upon the profession of that Faith Baptized, that is Dipped in Water, in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost; also the Church in Samaria,