A47591:1778
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.
But Infants are not in Scripture called Men Washed, Sanctified, Justified; they are not called Saints, Churches of Saints, Christians, nor Sanctified ones, Ergo, Infants ought not to be baptized. If any should say why did you not cite these assertions of Mr. Baxters whilst he was living? I answer, more then Eighteen years ago, I did recite and Print these assertions, and many other ⟨p. 318⟩Arguments of his to the same purpose, to which he gave no answer.
Arg. 24. If there is but one way for all, both Parents and Children to be admitted in the Gospel Church, to the end of the World, and that it is upon profession of Faith to be baptized; then both Parents and Children must upon the profession of their Faith be baptized, and so admitted, &c. But there is but one way for all, both Parents and Children to be admitted into the Gospel-Church to the end of the World, and that is upon the profession of their Faith to be Baptized, Ergo.
Arg. 25. That cannot be Christ's, true baptism wherein there is not, cannot be a lively Representation of the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, together with our Death unto Sin, and vivification to a New Life; but in the Rantizing or Sprinkling of an Infant there is not, cannot be a lively Representation of Christ's Death, Burial and Resurrection, &c.