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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.
I say again, Are all our Children in the Election of Grace, or doth Election run only in that Line?
If the First-Adam had stood, we and our Children would have stood: Doth Faith in the Second-Adam, make the Condition of our Children worser than it should be through the Obedience of the First-Adam?
Answ. Must God save all the Children of the First-Adam by the Obedience of the Second, because, if Adam had stood none of his Children had fallen? What Doctrine is this? You out do all the Arminians I have yet met with, but O! the Riches of God's Sovereign Grace, to any of the lost Seed of Rebellious Mankind.
If this you intend not, yet is every Believer a like common or public Head to his natural Off-spring, as Adam was to his? Christ only is the public Head of his Seed; a Believer's Faith objectively justifies and saves himself only, not his Children. Could Reverend Mr. Jones find no better a Pen to defend his Cause of Pedo-Baptism? My Faith may be said to unite me to Christ; but doth it also unite my Child to Christ? Whatsoever good Children do receive from their believing Parents, be sure the Parent's Faith doth not render his Child a Believer, but however my Faith doth not make the Condition of my Child worser than it was, and it may not make the Condition of my Child better; for all the good Counsel, Education, good Example and Prayers; some Children have from their Godly Parents, they make them not the