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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.
Reply. He should not boast before he puts off his Armour; that may be a Truth in a Man's Opinion, which is a gross ⟨p. viii⟩Error in it self. You will, when you have read our Answer, the better judg whether he hath proved the Baptism of Infants to be from Heaven, as in the Title of his Book he asserts it is. He farther says,
Reply. He should not boast before he puts off his Armour; that may be a Truth in a Man's Opinion, which is a gross ⟨p. viii⟩Error in it self. You will, when you have read our Answer, the better judg whether he hath prov'd the Baptism of Infants to be from Heaven, as in the Title of his Book he asserts it is. He farther says,
We are Fathers, and the Law of Nature teacheth us to preserve the Inheritance of our Children.
Reply. Our Affections are not less to our Children than his; we are Fathers also, but are not willing to give an Inheritance to our Children which of right belongs not unto them.