A47591:1770
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.
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.
Arg. 21. If the Sins of no persons are forgiven them till they are Converted, then they must not be baptized ⟨p. 136⟩for the forgiveness of them, till they profess themselves to be Converted; but the Sins of no Persons till they are Converted are forgiven; Ergo, no Person ought to be Baptized for the forgiveness of them, till they profess they are Converted.
Mr. Baxter in the said Treatise, lays down the substance of this Argument also, take his own words, i. e.