A47591:404
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.
I answer, 1. Cannot God save dying Infants unless they were included in the Covenant made with Abraham? How then could the dying Infants of the Godly, who lived before that Covenant was made with Abraham, be saved?
God has many ways, through Christ's Undertakings, to save dying Infants, as Dr. Taylor notes, which we know not of: Secret things belong to God, and revealed things to us.
2. Were they in any sense included in that Covenant made with Abraham, tho not accounted for his Natural or Spiritual Seed, yet it would not follow from thence that they ought to be baptized; because the Females who were truly Abraham's Natural Seed, and some of them might be his Spiritual Seed too, yet were not circumcised, no more than the Male Children of the Godly were before Abraham's time, &c.
3. Were they in Covenant as they are the Natural Seed of Believers? Then Baptism however does not bring them into the Covenant; and if so, their State is good, whether ⟨p. 51⟩