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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.
But there is no Law to baptize Infants: Ergo, It is no Transgression not to baptize them.
Where God hath no Mouth to speak, we should have no Ear to hear.
Arg. 3. To act in the Service of God without Authority from his Word, is a Sin:
But they that baptize Infants do act in the Service of God without Authority from his Word: Ergo, It is a Sin to baptize Infants.
Would not Abraham have sinned if he had circumcised his Females, or to have circumcised his Males on the 7th or 9th day, because the express. Command was to Males, and on the eighth day? so the express Command of Christ is, to be baptized when made Disciples, if we believe, if we repent, or when we believe, and bring forth Fruits meet for Repentance. You add, That they that despise Water-Baptism, despise not John's Baptism, but the Baptism of Christ, therefore their Sin is the greater.