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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
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Reply. He tells us one while that Mr. Jones desired and importuned him to write his Treatise, and at another time he says his Will and Desire was that Mr. Jones should do it.
As touching the Reverend Mr. Samuel Jones, I have had such an account of him, by a Worthy Minister, that I am fully satisfied, that had he wrote on this Subject, we should have had no such bitter Reflections or ill Treatment as we meet withal from this Man: He hath dipped his Pen into Gall and Wormwood, and hath made work for Repentance; besides, I am informed that Mr. Jones neither put him upon this Work nor approves of it, tho perhaps when he saw his Forwardness, he might say Go on and do it.
Sirs, those Weaklings he means need no such a Disputant, he hath done them no service, nor the Church of God either; we throw none of them out of that Eternal Covenant of which he speaks, nor can Men nor Angels do it; such of our Infants that are in the Eternal Covenant are safe enough: But we deny that our Infants are in that Covenant of Peculiarity which God made with Abraham and his natural Seed, as such. And this I doubt not but you will find in the ensuing Answer sufficiently proved. Moreover,
Sirs, those Weaklings he means need no such a Disputant, he hath done them no service, nor the Church of God either; we throw none of them out of that Eternal Covenant of which he speaks, nor can Men nor Angels do it; such of our Infants that are in the Eternal Covenant are safe enough: But we deny that our Infants are in that Covenant of Peculiarity which God made with Abraham and his natural Seed, as such. And this I doubt not but you will find in the insuing Answer sufficiently proved. Moreover,