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…

Worthy Britons, Search the Scriptures, and be not mistaken about the Covenant God made with Abraham; you will find ⟨p. x⟩the Covenant of Grace was one and the same from the beginning, and it was always held forth by way of a Free Promise, first to Adam, and so to Abraham, &c. but there was a Covenant made with Noah, and tho it was full of Mercy to him and all Mankind, yet that was not simply in it self the Covenant of Grace: So also there was a Covenant made with Abraham and his Natural Seed, as such, which we call a Covenant of Peculiarity, or, which peculiarly did appertain to his Natural Seed or Off-spring; to which Covenant Circumcision did belong, which was distinct to the Free Promise, or Covenant of Grace, which God made with him, and with all the Elect in him. You may assure your selves that that Covenant in which there was mutual Restipulation between God and Abraham and his Carnal Seed, or between God and the whole House of Israel (and upon the Condition of Obedience thereunto, Life, length of Days, and the Earthly Canaan was promised, and upon their Disobedience Temporal Death was threatened) was not the Covenant of Grace, tho it might be given in subserviency to the Gospel-Covenant, or the Covenant of Faith: And so it was as a School-master to bring them to Christ. 'Tis only the Holy Spirit, through Faith, that actually entitles us or our Children to the Covenant of Grace: We must believe, and our Children must believe, before either we or they can be actually in this Blessed Covenant, so as to have right to Baptism, I mean such of them that live, &c.

Worthy Britains, Search the Scriptures, and be not mistaken about the Covenant God made with Abraham; you will find ⟨p. x⟩the Covenant of Grace was one and the same from the beginning, and it was always held forth by way of a Free Promise, first to Adam, and so to Abraham, &c. but there was a Covenant made with Noah, and tho it was full of Mercy to him and all Mankind, yet that was not simply in it self the Covenant of Grace: So also there was a Covenant made with Abraham and his Natural Seed, as such, which we call a Covenant of Peculiarity, or, which peculiarly did appertain to his Natural Seed or Off-spring; to which Covenant Circumcision did belong, which was distinct to the Free Promise, or Covenant of Grace, which God made with him, and with all the Elect in him. You may assure your selves that that Covenant in which there was mutual Restipulation between God and Abraham and his Carnal Seed, or between God and the whole House of Israel (and upon the Condition of Obedience thereunto, Life, length of Days, and the Earthly Canaan was promised, and upon their Disobedience Temporal Death was threatned) was not the Covenant of Grace, tho it might be given in subserviency to the Gospel-Covenant, or the Covenant of Faith: And so it was as a School-master to bring them to Christ. 'Tis only the Holy Spirit, thro Faith, that actually intiles us or our Children to the Covenant of Grace: We must believe, and our Children must believe, before either we or they can be actually in this Blessed Covenant, so as to have right to Baptism, I mean such of them that live, &c.