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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.
Answ. Our Doctrine cuts off not one Child of any Believer that is in the Covenant of Salvation; if God hath elected the major part of the Children of the Faithful, we say they shall be saved: 'Tis impossible for any to cut off one of God's Elect. But what is this to their Children, as such, or to the positive Right any of our Infants have to Baptism? Do you cut off your Infants from the Covenant of Salvation, because you will not give them the Blood of the Covenant (I mean the Lord's Supper)?
Answ. Our Doctrine cuts off not one Child of any Believer that is in the Covenant of Salvation; if God hath elected the major part of the Children of the Faithfull, we say they shall be saved: 'Tis impossible for any to cut off one of God's Elect. But what is this to their Children, as such, or to the positive Right any of our Infants have to Baptism? Do you cut off your Infants from the Covenant of Salvation, because you will not give them the Blood of the Covenant (I mean the Lord's Supper)?
Brethren, Both the Sacraments are Ordinances that are of mere positive Right, viz. depending (as to the Subjects and all Matters thereunto belonging) upon the Sovereign Will and Pleasure of the Lord Jesus, the great Law-giver; and as they that come to one Ordinance are to examine themselves and to discern the Lord's Body: So all they that come to the other are to believe in Christ, and to repent from dead Works.
Brethren, Both the Sacraments are Ordinances that are of meer positive Right, viz. depending (as to the Subjects and all Matters thereunto belonging) upon the Sovereign Will and Pleasure of the Lord Jesus, the great Law-giver; and as they that come to one Ordinance are to examine themselves and to discern the Lord's Body: So all they that come to the other are to believe in Christ, and to repent from dead Works.