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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.
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⟩baptized or no: And if Baptism brings them into the Covenant of Grace, and makes the Covenant sure unto them, then it would follow that 'tis in the Power of Men, either to bring their Children into the Covenant of Grace, or keep them out; and that it is in effect to say, Parents have Power to save or destroy their Children: and how absurd that is, I will leave to all impartial Men to judg.
I shall, in the next place, prove, that the Covenant of Circumcision was not a Covenant of Grace, or Faith, and therefore doth not concern the Infant-Seed of believing Gentiles.