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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.
Mr. Owen saith, We are Stewards over the House of God, and we ought to protect the Feeble and Afflicted; we are Shepherds, and our duty is to provide for the Lambs of the Flock, lest any cast them out of the Fold.
Reply. It is required in Stewards that they be Faithful, and to see that they give no portion of their Masters Goods to any, but to such he hath directed and commanded them so to do: Now Christ hath commanded his Stewards, or Ministers, no more to give Infants the Holy Ordinance of Baptism than the Lord's Supper. He therefore that doth it, let him answer it when our Lord comes.
2. Are our Infants Lambs in Christ's Fold, or feeble and afflicted Christians in Christ's Spiritual Family? Infants are committed to Ministers care, who are Natural Fathers, but not as Ministers; God never made his Ministers, Stewards ⟨p. ix⟩to take care of, and to be Nurses of little Infants: True, •ew born Babes in Christ, or Babes in Grace, they are to provide for, and take the care of; those Lambs they must see not cast out of Christ's Fold, when they are received in by Baptism, &c.