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…

If you do, and will do this thing, notwithstanding you have no authority from God's Word to do it; Pray consider what I have said in this Treatise about this devised and unwarrantable Covenant, by which you may heap up much guilt upon your selves, and lay such a Load and Burden upon your Children, that you are not aware of: Mr. Williams's frightens them with the Sin of Perjury, who violate this Covenant, may not this tend to drive them into despair, and God will never charge them with Perjury, since he never commanded them to enter into any such Covenant: Your Children who when grown up if wicked and ungodly have too much guilt, both Original sin, and Actual sin, lying upon them, there is little need to add to their Burden; for their want of Light, and by Reading of such Mens Books, they may perhaps thus charge themselves. Mr. Dan. Williams says, 'tis the damning sin: no no, the Damning sin is the breach of God's Law, and particularly the sin of unbelief.

If you do, and will do this thing, notwithstanding you have no authority from God's Word to do it; Pray consider what I have said in this Treatise about this devised and unwarrantable Covenant, by which you may heap up much guilt upon your selves, and lay such a Load and Burden upon your Children, that you are not aware of: Mr. Williams's frightnes them with the Sin of Perjury, who violate this Covenant, may not this tend to drive them into despair, and God will never charge them with Perjury, since he never commanded them to enter into any such Covenant: Your Children who when grown up if wicked and ungodly have too much guilt, both Original sin, and Actual sin, lying upon them, there is little need to add to their Burden; for their want of Light, and by Reading of such Mens Books, they may perhaps thus charge themselves. Mr. Dan. Williams says, 'tis the damning sin: no no, the Damning sin is the breach of God's Law, and particularly the sin of unbelief.

Nay, and doth not his words Imply that when your Children are grown up, and they by Light received ⟨p. 295⟩from God's word, should be convinced they were never baptized at all, and so cast off and renounce their Infants Rautism, that they hereby become guilty of Perjury, and must be Damned, for he speaks not of those sins forbidden in God's Word, but the violation of this baptismal Covenant, which he saith is Perjury, and the Damning Sin, and Root of all Sin. O! what want of Charity is here in these Men, and what New and strange Doctrine do they Teach!