A47591:1639
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. This Doctrine implies, that 'tis in the power of Men and Women to bring their Children into the Covenant of Grace, and as also it denotes that the Children of believers are not Born Children of Wrath by Nature, for are those that are born in the Covenant of Grace, born Children of Wrath? O ye Parents, know that you may be in Covenant, and your Children never in it whilst they live, nay die out of Covenant, as doubtless many Children of the Faithful do. Nor hath God made any such Covenant with any believer, and their Natural Seed as such, as he made with Abraham, who was the Father of all that believe, but so are not you nor I, tho' we are believers and in Covenant with God, and walk in Abraham's Steps. Those that are in the Election of Grace of your Seed, never fear, but God will in due time bring into the Covenant of Grace, and give all the Covenant Blessings and Privileges, but if any of them are not comprehended in the Election of Grace, their being born of your Loins, will not, cannot bring them into the Covenant of Grace, nor give them a right to the Seal thereof, viz. the holy Spirit; nor can baptism bring any into it, which is only an outward Sign of our being in that Covenant, or of that divine and spiritual Grace we received, before we were baptized as I have proved.
Answ. This Doctrine implys, that 'tis in the power of Men and Women to bring their Children into the Covenant of Grace, and as also it denotes that the Children of believers are not Born Children of Wrath by Nature, for are those that are born in the Covenant of Grace, born Children of Wrath? O ye Parents, know that you may be in Covenant, and your Children never in it whilst they live, nay die out of Covenant, as doubtless many Children of the Faithful do. Nor hath God made any such Covenant with any believer, and their Natural Seed as such, as he made with Abraham, who was the Father of all that believe, but so are not you nor I, tho' we are believers and in Covenant with God, and walk in Abrahams Steps. Those that are in the Electiof Grace of your Seed, never fear, but God will in due time bring into the Covenant of Grace, and give all the Covenant Blessings and Priviledges, but if any of them are not comprehended in the Election of Grace, their being born of your Loyns, will not, cannot bring them into the Covenant of Grace, nor give them a right to the Seal thereof, viz. the holy Spirit; nor can baptism bring any into it, which is only an outward Sign of our being in that Covenant, or of that divine and spiritual Grace we received, before we were baptized as I have proved.