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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.
SIR,
You in your fourth Chapter come to consider and enquire who are the proper Subjects of Baptism, or who they are that ought to be baptized. And first, you say, that Baptism doth not belong to all Men, but to the Faithful and their Seed: He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; Mark 16. 16. When the Eunuch asked Philip, See, here is Water, what doth hinder me to be baptized? He answered, If thou believest with all thy Heart, thou mayst; Acts 8. It is plain, say you, that Baptism belongeth to them that believe: but say you, how doth it appear that Baptism doth belong to the Seed of such? that will appear, you say,
YOu in your fourth Chapter come to consider and enquire who are the proper Subjects of Baptism, or who they are that ought to be baptiz'd. And first, you say, that Baptism doth not belong to all Men, but to the Faithful and their Seed: He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; Mark 16. 16. When the Eunuch ask'd Philip, See, here is Water, what doth hinder me to be baptized? He answered, If thou believest with all thy Heart, thou mayst; Acts 8. It is plain, say you, that Baptism belongeth to them that believe: but say you, how doth it appear that Baptism doth belong to the Seed of such? that will appear, you say,
1. From God's Covenant. 2. From Circumcision under the Law. 3. From Christ's Command to baptize all Nations. 4. Because they are holy. 5. Because Christ blessed them. 6. Because the Gentiles were ingrafted into the Privileges of the Jews. 7. Because they can partake of that which is signified by Baptism. 8. From the form of Baptism under the Law.