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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 the Covenant of Circumcision was in its nature and quality as much a Covenant of Works, as that Covenant made with Adam, or the Sinai-Covenant: Ergo, The Covenant of Circumcision was not a Covenant of Grace, or Gospel-Covenant. Read Reverend Mr. Philip Cary's Defence and ⟨p. 55⟩Proof of the Substance of this Argument, in his just Reply to Mr. John Flavel, p. 59, 60. Thus he says (and doubtless speaks the Truth) viz.
That Adam's Covenant was a Covenant of Works, cannot rationally be denied; for as much as Life was implicitly promised to him on his Obedience, and Death was explicitly threatened in case of Disobedience; upon these Terms he was to stand or fall. And that the Sinai-Covenant was of the same nature, he hath in the said Treatise clearly proved, both of them requiring perfect Obedience, and neither of them admitting of Faith in a Redeemer. The Sinai Covenant commanded perfect Obedience under the pain of a Curse; Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Book of the Law, to do them; Gal. 3. 10.
That Adam's Covenant was a Covenant of Works, cannot rationally be denied; for as much as Life was implicitly promised to him on his Obedience, and Death was explicitly threatned in case of Disobedience; upon these Terms he was to stand or fall. And that the Sinai-Covenant was of the same nature, he hath in the said Treatise clearly proved, both of them requiring perfect Obedience, and neither of them admitting of Faith in a Redeemer. The Sinai Covenant commanded perfect Obedience under the pain of a Curse; Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Book of the Law, to do them; Gal. 3. 10.