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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.
Mr. Daniel Rogers, a most worthy Writer, says in a Treatise of his, It ought to be the Church's part to cleave to the Institution, which is dipping, especially it being not lest Arbitrary by our Church to the Discretion of the Minister, but required to dip or dive. And further saith, That he betrays the Church, whose Minister he is, to a disordered Error, if he cleave not to the Institution.
O, what abundance of Betrayers of the Truth and of Churches too, have we in these as well as in former days! How little is the Institution of Christ, or Practice of the Primitive Churches minded by many good Men? Where is the Spirit of Reformation? And doubtless that famous Author, and Learned Critic in the Greek Tongue, Casaubon. was in the right: Take his words.
O, what abundance of Betrayers of the Truth and of Churches too, have we in these as well as in former days! How little is the Institution of Christ, or Practice of the Primitive Churches minded by many good Men? Where is the Spirit of Reformation? And doubtless that famous Author, and Learned Critick in the Greek Tongue, Casanbon. was in the right: Take his words.
I doubt not (saith he) but, contrary to our Church's Intention, this Error having once crept in, is maintained still, by the carnal Ease of such, as looking more at themselves than at God, stretch the Liberty of the Church in this case, deeper and further than either the Church her self would, or the Solemness of this Sacrament may well and safely admit. Afterwards he saith, I confess my self unconvinced by Demonstrations of Scripture for Infants sprinkling.
I doubt not (saith he) but, contrary to our Church's Intention, this Error having once crept in, is maintain'd still, by the carnal Ease of such, as looking more at themselves than at God, stretch the Liberty of the Church in this case, deeper and further than either the Church her self would, or the Solemness of this Sacrament may well and safely admit. Afterwards he saith, I consess my self unconvinced by Demonstrations of Scripture for Infants sprinkling.