A47591:1776
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.
Mr. Baxter saith, Faith and Repentance is the condition of the Adult, and as to any other condition, I am sure the Scripture is silent, The way of the Lord is one, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, Eph. 4. 4. ⟨p. 317⟩If profession of Faith were not necessary, saith Mr. Baxter, Coram Ecclesia, to Church Membership and Privileges, then Infidels and Heathens would have Right, also, saith he the Church and the World would be confounded. He might have added, but Infidels and Heathens have no Right to Church Membership, &c. Ergo. 'Tis a granted case among all Christians, saith he, that profession is thus necessary, the Apostles, and Ancient Church admitted none without it. page 21. And if so, why dare any now a days admit of Infants, who are uncapable to make profession? He adds, Yea Christ in his Commission directeth his Apostles to make Disciples and then Baptize them, promising, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, Mark 16. 16. page 27. Furthermore he saith, If as many as are baptized into Christ, are baptized into his Death, and are Buried with him by baptism into Death, that like as Christ was raised from the Dead, so we also should walk in newness of Life, &c. Then no doubt, saith he, but such as were to be baptized did first profess this mortification, and a consent to be buried, &c. In our Baptism we put off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh, by the Circumcision of Christ, being buried with him and raised with him through Faith, quickened with him, and having all our Trespasses forgiven, Coll. 2. 11, 12, 13. and will any Man, says he, yea will Paul ascribe all this to those that did not so much as profess the things signified? Will Baptism in the Judgment of a wise Man, do all this for an Infidel, (or, say I, for an Infant) that cannot make a profession that he is a Christian. page 31, 32. he proceeds.
Mr. Baxter saith, Faith and Repentance is the condition of the Adult, and as to any other condition, I am sure the Scripture is silent, The way of the Lord is one, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, Eph. 4. 4. ⟨p. 317⟩If profession of Faith were not necessary, saith Mr. Baxter, Coram Ecclesia, to Church Membership and Priviledges, then Infidels and Heathens would have Right, also, saith he the Church and the World would be confounded. He might have added, but Infidels and Heathens have no Right to Church Membership, &c. Ergo. 'Tis a granted case among all Christians, saith he, that profession is thus necessary, the Apostles, and Antient Church admitted none without it. page 21. And if so, why dare any now a days admit of Infants, who are uncapable to make profession? He adds, Yea Christ in his Commission directeth his Apostles to make Disciples and then Baptize them, promising, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved,