A47591:1696
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.
20. What reason can be given why Nazianzen an Eminent Greek Father should Counsel the deferring the ⟨p. 304⟩Baptism of Infants until the third or fourth year of their Age (except in danger of Death) if it were in Nazianzen's time, as some suppose it was, the Opinion of the whole Church, as also his own, that Infants by an Apostolical Tradition, were to be baptized as such, that is as soon as born.
20. What reason can be given why Nazianzen an Eminent Greek Father should Counsel the deferring the ⟨p. 304⟩Baptism of Infants untill the third or fourth year of their Age (except in danger of Death) if it were in Nazianzen's time, as some suppose it was, the Opinion of the whole Church, as also his own, that Infants by an Apostolical Tradition, were to be baptized as such, that is as soon as born.
21. Whither all the Fathers of the Third and Fourth Century, both of the Greek and Latin Church, who have wrote any thing about Infant Baptism, do not unanimously give this as the reason why Infants should be baptized, viz. for to wash away Original Sin, or the putting them into a capacity of Salvation; and some of them, particularly St. Austin sentencing Infants to Damnation if not Baptized.
22. If so, whether the Fathers might not be mistaken in the Right of Infant Baptism, as well as in the Judgment of most Protestants they, were touching the reason why they should be baptized.