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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.
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.
It accepted (as he shows) of no short Endeavours, nor gave any Strength, and is called a Ministration of Death and of Condemnation, 2 Cor. 3. And moreover 'tis called in express Terms, the old Covenant which God made with the Children of Israel when he brought them up out of the Land of Egypt, Heb. 8. 9. Also the new Covenant is said to be directly contrary unto it, or not according to it, but opposed thereto, and that there was no Righteousness by it, nor Life: for, as the Apostle shows, if there had, Christ is dead in vain; and besides, the Apostle says 'tis done away. Now all these things being considered, Mr. Flavel 'tis evident doth but beat the Air, and darken Counsel; and all that he hath said in his last Book in Answer to that worthy Gentleman Mr. Cary, deserves no farther Answer.