A47591:1692
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.
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 Rev. 22. 18. and doth not this open likewise a Door to any other like innovation?
17. Whither there is any just cause for Men to vilify and reproach the Baptists with the Name of Anabaptists, for their Baptizing Believers, seeing aspersion is not baptizing, and in regard also, that they have the direct and positive Word and Command of Christ so to do, and not only the Commission, Mat. 28. Mark 16. but also the constant use of the Apostles, and Ministers of the Gospel, all along in the New Testament, who baptized none but such who made a profession of their Faith in the Gospel time; observable 'tis also, that the Church of England also saith, that Faith and Repentance are required of such who are to be baptized.
17. Whither there is any just cause for Men to vilifie and reproach the Baptists with the Name of Anabaptists, for their Baptizing Believers, seeing aspersion is not baptizing, and in regard also, that they have the direct and positive Word and Command of Christ so to do, and not only the Commission, Mat. 28. Mark 16. but also the constant use of the Apostles, and Ministers of the Gospel, all along in the New Testament, who baptized none but such who made a profession of their Faith in the Gospel time; observable 'tis also, that the Church of England also saith, that Faith and Repentance are required of such who are to be baptized.