A47591:417
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.
Arg. 4 If all who are in the Covenant of Grace, or Gospel-Covenant, do know the Lord from the greatest to the least of them; then the Covenant of Circumcision could not be the Covenant of Grace, or Gospel-Covenant.
But all who are in the Covenant of Grace, or Gospel-Covenant, do know the Lord from the greatest to the least of them: Ergo, The Covenant of Circumcision was not the Covenant of Grace.
This Argument is fully proved by that in Jer. 31. 32; 33, 34 speaking of the new Covenant which God would make with the House of Israel, which should not be according to the old, he goes on and tells us what God would do in the Gospel-day. That he would put his Law into their inward Parts, and write it in their Hearts. And they shall teach no more every Man his Neighbour, and every Man his Brother, saying, Know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord, &c.
And indeed in this very respect the Gospel-Covenant is not according to the old, as the Lord said it should not be, as well as in divers other cases: For many of those who were in the old Covenant (to which Circumcision did appertain) were Infants, though all of them were not taken in by Circumcision; for Female Infants were received into that old Covenant without it. Now these Children who were taken into Covenant, did not know the Lord: Infants having no Understanding, know not their Right hand from their Left, it is therefore impossible they should know the Lord; and therefore there was a necessity, after they were in that Covenant, that they should be taught to know the Lord: First, That God is, and what a God he is, and so to know him as to fear him, and serve him in Sincerity.