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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 which Mr. Flavel hath said in his last Reply (in his Book, called, A succinct and seasonable Discourse) to Mr. Cary, is mainly to prove that there is but one Covenant of Works p 217, 218, &c.
To which I answer by way of Concession; yet you must say, that Covenant had several Ministrations, and Additions, as had also the Covenant of Grace; because the Covenant of Works was made with Adam, by which he stood in the time of his innocency justified and accepted by virtue thereof.
Could not God give such a second Ministration or Transcript of his righteous and holy Law, tho not to Justification, yet to aggravate his Sin, and to his just Condemnation? And doth not St. Paul assert the same thing? Rom. 3 1•, 20, compared with Rom. 7. 13. That Sin by the Commandment (or Law) might become exceeding sinful: So Gal. 3. 19. Nay, I will […] always when the Scriptures of the New Testament speak of the old Covenant, or first Covenant, or Covenant of Works, it passes by in silence the Covenant made with Adam, and more immediately and directly applies to the Sinai Covenant, and to the Covenant of Circumcision, as all careful Readers, who read the Epistles to the Romans, Galatians, and to the Hebrews, may clearly find. But to proceed; Tho we say there is but one Covenant of Grace, yet it is evident there were several distinct Ministrations of it, or Additions to it; and we say, the Promise of the Gospel, or Gospel-Covenant, was the same in all Ages, in respect of things promised, with the nature and quality thereof, which is a •ree and absolute Covenant, without Works, or any Conditions or foreseen As of Righteousness, or any thing to be done by the Creature,