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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.
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 ⟨p. vi⟩better, 'Tis not in him that willeth, nor in him that runneth, but in God that showeth Mercy.
If this you intend not, yet is every Believer a like common or publick Head to his natural Off-spring, as Adam was to his? Christ only is the publick 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, besure 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 ⟨p. vi⟩better, 'Tis not in him that willeth, nor in him that runneth, but in God that sheweth Mercy.
You intimate what Cause there is of bitter Sorrow in the Churches of God, that the Major part of their Children are out off from the Covenant of Salvation.