A47591:1768
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.
The Major our opposites generally grant, particularly see what Mr. Baxter saith, Our Baptism is our solemnizing of our Marriage with Christ. These are his very words. page 32.
The Minor none can deny, no Man, sure in his right mind will assert, that little Babes are capable to enter into a Marriage Relation with Christ; and to make profession of a consent; and the truth is, he in the next words gives away his Cause, viz. and 'tis (saith he) A a new and strange kind of Marriage where there is no profession of consent. page 32.
How unhappy was this Man to plead for such a New and strange kind of Marriage, did he find any little Babe he ever Baptized (or rather Rantized) to make a profession of consent to be Married to Jesus Christ. If any should object he speaks of the Baptism of the Adult; I answer his words are these, Our Baptism is, &c. Besides will any Pedo-baptist say, That the Baptism of the Adult is the solemnizing of the Souls Marriage with Christ, and not the Baptism of Infants. Reader, observe how our opposites are forced sometimes to speak the Truth, tho' it overthrows their own practice of Pedo-baptism.