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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.
But in the Gospel-Covenant God promised it should be otherwise, all who were received into that Covenant should be Adult Persons, or such who did know the Lord: which plainly implies no ignorant Infant should be taken into that Covenant, and be a Member of that Church-State; for it ⟨p. 54⟩so, then it would follow, such would have the like need to be taught to know the Lord, as they had in the old Covenant Church State. And remarkable it is, that this Text doth clearly intimate, that all who should be taken into the Gospel-Covenant, or Gospel-Church, should be discipled or taught, first to know God; for to be taught or discipled is all one and the same thing, which agrees with Christ's great Commission, Mat. 28. 19, 20. where he gave Direction: who, or what kind of Persons they were to be that he would have his Apostles receive into his Gospel-Church; and that they should be all of them, first taught, or made Disciples, and, as such, be baptized, is clearly declared. Now that this Text in Jer. 31. refers to the Gospel-Covenant is evident. see Heb. 8. 7, 8, 9, 10.
Arg. 5. That Covenant that was a part or branch of the old Covenant, or Covenant of Works, was not a Covenant of Grace, or Gospel-Covenant.
But the Covenant of Circumcision was a part or branch of the old Covenant, or Covenant of Works; Ergo, The Covenant of Circumcision was not a Covenant of Grace, or Gospel-Covenant.