A47591:1691
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.
15. Whither the Ancient Church, who gave the Lords Supper to Infants as well as baptism might not be allowed to do the one as the other; since Faith and Holy Habits, yea to believe with all the Heart, is required of them that are to be Baptized, as Faith, Examination, and to discern the Lord's Body, is required of them that partake of the Lord's Supper, and since also all that were baptized into the Apostolic Church, were immediately admitted to the Lord's Supper; and also seeing the arguments taken from the Covenant, and because Children are said to be Holy, and belong to the Kingdom of Heaven, are as strong for their being admitted to both the Sacraments as one, and there being no ⟨p. 303⟩Command nor example for either, and Human Tradition carrying it equally for both for several Centuries.
15. Whither the Ancient Church, who gave the Lords Supper to Infants as well as baptism might not be allowed to do the one as the other; since Faith and Holy Habits, yea to believe with all the Heart, is required of them that are to be Baptized, as Faith, Examination, and to discern the Lord's Body, is required of them that partake of the Lord's Supper, and since also all that were baptized into the Apostolick Church, were immeditely admitted to the Lord's Supper; and also seeing the arguments taken from the Covenant, and because Children are said to be Holy, and belong to the Kingdom of Heaven, are as strong for their being admitted to both the Sacraments as one, and there being no ⟨p. 303⟩Command nor example for either, and Human Tradition carrying it equally for both for several Centuries.
16. Whither Nadab, Abihu and Uzzah's Transgressions were not as much Circumstantials; and so as small Errors, as it is to alter Dipping into Sprinkling, and from an understanding believer, to an Infant that understands not its Right Hand from its Left; and whether to allow the Church a power to make such alterations be not dangerous, it being an adding and diminishing from God's Word, see