A47591:1643
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. This is enough to set the Children against their ungodly Parents, nay to hate them in their Hearts: Alas! the Children of wicked Parents, I see not, but they may be in as good a Condition as many Children of believers (tho' I doubt not but God doth let out his infinite Grace generally more to the seed of the Faithful when grown up then to others) but God will not certainly destroy poor Children for the fault and unbelief of their Parents. Therefore as your begetting them in the first birth, tho' gracious cannot save them, so your begetting them, tho' wicked cannot damn or destroy them.
There is no reason saith Mr. Perkins, that the wickedness of the Parents should prejudice the Children in things pertaining to eternal Life. Perkins on Gal. 3. p. 264.
2. However if it be as Mr. Burkitt and Mr. Owen say, that when believers are in Covenant their Children are in Covenant also; Doubtless they are in a safe condition, whether baptized or not, that doth not bring them into Covenant.