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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. As to what you say here, it seems very strange to me, that you should once imagine that John baptized all the People universally in Jerusalem and Judea, without Exception: Why did not you put in all the Infants too as well as Men and Women? I had lately to do with one Mr. Exel, who asserted that in a Treatise of his, which, with Shame enough to him, I gave an Answer unto. I am sorry you have no better Skill in Scripture-Rhetoric, where frequently, per Synecdochen vel totius, vel partis, a part is put for the whole, or the whole for the part, as 'tis said, God would have all Men to be saved, i. e. some of all sorts and degrees, as Kings, Noble-Men, Old, Young, Rich, Poor, &c. So 'tis said Christ, when he was lifted up he would draw all Men unto him, [Greek or Hebrew], Joh. 12. 32. Doth he mean every individual Person, or some of all sorts, of Jews and Gentiles? So Paul saith, All seek their own, &c.
Answ. As to what you say here, it seems very strange to me, that you should once imagine that John baptized all the People universally in Jerusalem and Judea, without Exception: Why did not you put in all the Infants too as well as Men and Women? I had lately to do with one Mr. Exel, who asserted that in a Treatise of his, which, with Shame enough to him, I gave an Answer unto. I am sorry you have no better Skill in Scripture-Rhetorick, where frequently, per Synecdochen vel totius, vel partis, a part is put for the whole, or the whole for the part, as 'tis said, God would have all Men to be saved, i. e. some of all sorts and degrees, as Kings, Noble-Men, Old, Young, Rich, Poor, &c. So 'tis said Christ, when he was lifted up he would draw all Men unto him, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Joh. 12. 32. Doth he mean every individual Person, or some of all sorts, of Jews and Gentiles? So Paul saith, All seek their own, &c.