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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.
Ergo, The Law or Covenant of Circumcision was not a Gospel-Covenant. And from hence Mr. Cary argues thus, By the way, saith he, let it be observed, in reference to the two foregoing Arguments which I have already proved, that that Covenant that is not of Faith, must be a Covenant of Works, there being no Medium betwixt them, and consequently must be the same for Substance with that made with Adam, and that on Mount Sinai with the Children of Israel.
Arg. 9. That Covenant that is plainly represented to us in Scripture as a Bondage-Covenant, in and by which there was imposed such a Yoke upon the Necks of the Jews, which neither those in the Apostles time, nor their Fathers were able to bear, could be no other than a Covenant of Works, and not of Grace.
But the Scriptures do plainly represent such was the nature of the Covenant of Circumcision, Acts 15. 10. Gal. 5. 1, 2, 3. Ergo, The Covenant of Circumcision was not a Gospel-Covenant, but a Covenant of Works. Thus Mr. Cary argues also: And thus we have proved from God's Word, and sound Arguments, that the Covenant of Circumcision was not a Gospel-Covenant.