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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.
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.
Grace, nor gracious Privileges, in the New Covenant, come to be the Inheritance of our Children, in a Natural way, as they are our Off-spring; tho evident it is in the Covenant of Peculiarity God made with Abraham, the Jews and their Seed, as such, had an Inheritance given them by the Lord, i. e. many Legal and External Privileges, besides the Land of Canaan, which Circumcision was a Token or Sign of; but we and our Children have no right to that Inheritance: They had the Shadow, we and our Children that believe have the Substance; they had the Shell, we the Kernel: The true Inheritance is by Faith, that it might appear to be of Grace, and not in Circumcision, nor in Baptism, but by Faith only. Therefore when our Children are called of God, or do believe in Christ, they have right to the Inheritance which Baptism is a sign of; and what signifies the sign without the thing signified? You our Brethren the Pedo-baptists give your Children the Name, but not the Nature of Christ; what is the lofty Title of Earl, or Duke, and no Estate suitable to that fancied Honour?
Grace, nor gracious Privileges, in the New Covenant, come to be the Inheritance of our Children, in a Natural way, as they are our Off-spring; tho evident it is in the Covenant of Peculiarity God made with Abraham, the Jews and their Seed, as such, had an Inheritance given them by the Lord, i. e. many Legal and External Privileges, besides the Land of Canaan, which Circumcision was a Token or Sign of; but we and our Children have no right to that Inheritance: They had the Shadow, we and our Children that believe have the Substance; they had the Shell, we the Kernel: The true Inheritance is by Faith, that it might appear to be of Grace, and not in Circumcision, nor in Baptism, but by Faith only. Therefore when our Children are called of God, or do believe in Christ, they have right to the Inheritance which Baptism is a sign of; and what signifies the sign without the thing signified? You our Brethren the Pedo-baptists give your Children the Name, but not the Nature of Christ; what is the lofty Title of Earl, or Duke, and no Estate suteable to that fancy'd Honour?