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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 Builders, saith he, and we ought to build the Walls of Jerusalem, working with one Hand in the Work, and with the other holding a Weapon, Neh. 4. 17. And we must not reject those small or little Stones, which the Father received into the old Building, whom the Son received into the new Building, and will be received by the Holy Ghost, Mat. 19. Luke 1. 44. who maketh them lively Stones of Jerusalem that is Above, and these Stones by some are cast into an unclean place without the City, Levit. 14. 40. God doth raise up Children unto Abraham, See Mat. 3. 9.
VVe are Builders, saith he, and we ought to build the VValls of Jerusalem, working with one Hand in the VVork, and with the other holding a VVeapon, Neh. 4. 17. And we must not reject those small or little Stones, which the Father received into the old Building, whom the Son received into the new Building, and will be received by the Holy Ghost, Mat. 19. Luke 1. 44. who maketh them lively Stones of Jerusalem that is Above, and these Stones by some are cast into an unclean place without the City, Levit. 14. 40. God doth raise up Children unto Abraham, See Mat. 3. 9.
Reply. Because the old Jerusalem, by God's appointment, was built with dead Stones which was a Type of the New, will he, without Christ's Authority, build his New and Spiritual Jerusalem with such Materials? We deny not but that God did receive Infants, as such, into his old Building: But doth not St. Peter tell us, the Gospel-Temple is built up with Spiritual Stones, lively, or living Stones, i. e. Men and Women spiritually quickened by Divine Grace, or renewed by the Holy Spirit. Let him prove, if he can, that Christ received into the Gospel-Church any one Infant; and tho we deny not but elect Infants that die may be lively Stones in Jerusalem Above, I mean Heaven; yet it follows no more from thence that Infants ought to be baptized, than that they ought to partake of the Lord's Supper. Moreover, evident it is, that John in