A47591:1699
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.
23. Whither God hath allowed or enjoined Parents to bring their little Babes of Two or Ten days Old into a Covenant with him by Baptism, since 'tis not to be found in the Holy Scripture, that he either hath allowed or enjoined them so to do, there being neither Command nor Example nor the least intimation given for them to do it?
23. Whither God hath allowed or enjoyned Parents to bring their little Babes of Two or Ten days Old into a Covenant with him by Baptism, since 'tis not to be found in the Holy Scripture, that he either hath allowed or injoyned them so to do, there being neither Command nor Example nor the least intimation given for them to do it?
24. If it cannot be proved he hath required any such thing at their Hands, whether that Covenant can be said to bind their Conscience when they come to Age, especially since they gave no consent to do it, nor were capable so to do?
24. If it cannot be proved he hath required any such thing at theit Hands, whether that Covenant can be said to bind their Conscience when they come to Age, especially since they gave no consent to do it, nor were capable so to do?
25. And if this pretended Covenant was not of God's appointment, I Query how those Children who refuse to agree to the said Covenant, when they come to Age, can be guilty (as Mr. Daniel Williams says) 1. of rejecting Christ. 2. Of renouncing the blessings of the Gospel. 3. And that 'tis Rebellion continued against their Parents. 4. That it is Ingratitude and Perjury to their Redeemer. 5. Gross injustice to their Parents. 6. That it is self-killing Cruelty to their own Souls. 7. The damning Sin. I Query whether this is good Divinity or not, or rather is it not a strange Doctrine, and whether those unwarrantable Articles of Faith taken out of the Jewish Talmud or Turkish Alcoran, may not be of as good