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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.
Ansew. 1. To this I answer, where the Thing signified is not, the Sign is a nullity; but your Thing signified in sprinkling Water on the Face of an Infant, viz. the holy Spirit and Graces of it, does not appear in those Infants you so sprinkle: Ergo, Your Sign is a nullity. If Grace was in them so much as in the Habit of it, when they are grown up the Act and Fruits of the Spirit and Faith would show themselves; for Grace is an active and lively Principle where-ever it is infused.
Ansew. 1. To this I answer, where the Thing signified is not, the Sign is a nullity; but your Thing signified in sprinkling VVater on the Face of an Infant, viz. the holy Spirit and Graces of it, does not appear in those Infants you so sprinkle: Ergo, Your Sign is a nullity. If Grace was in them so much as in the Habit of it, when they are grown up the Act and Fruits of the Spirit and Faith would shew themselves; for Grace is an active and lively Principle where-ever it is infused.
2. And I positively deny that the End and Use of Baptism is or can be represented by sprinkling or pouring of Water; but by what I have said and produced, by the Testimony of the Scripture, and almost all Learned Men, both Ancient Fathers, and Modern Divines, I have fully showed the contrary.
2. And I positively deny that the End and Use of Baptism is or can be represented by sprinkling or pouring of VVater; but by what I have said and produced, by the Testimony of the Scripture, and almost all Learned Men, both Antient Fathers, and Modern Divines, I have fully shewed the contrary.
3. I thought the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper had been instituted by Christ, to signify the Effusion, or pouring forth his precious Blood, and not Baptism. VVill you confound the Use and End of one Sacrament with the other, to maintain your own Innovation and Abuse of Christ's holy Baptism?