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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.
1. It doth profit as a Privilege, because it was given as a Token or a Sign to Abraham's Natural Seed, that they should have the Land of Canaan for an everlasting Possession.
2. As a Token or Sign to them of the giving forth of the Law on Mount Sinai. He dealt his Laws and Statutes to Israel, he did not so to any other Nation; this Rite could not therefore be a Gospel-Rite, nor the Covenant it was a Sign of a Gospel-Covenant, in which the Gentile Christians are concerned. And thus Paul argues, Rom. 31. What Advantage then hath the Jew? or what Profit is there in Circumcision? Ver. 2. Much every way; chiefly, because unto them were committed the Oracles of God. You may soon know the nature of that Covenant made with Abraham's Natural Seed, and of Circumcision which was a Sign of it; the chiefest Privilege which attended it, was the giving to them, i. e. the People of Israel, the Law of the Ten Commandments.
2. As a Token or Sign to them of the giving forth of the Law on Mount Sinai. He dealt his Laws and Statutes to Israel, he did not so to any other Nation; this Rite could not therefore be a Gospel-Rite, nor the Covenant it was a Sign of a Gospel-Covenant, in which the Gentile Christians are concern'd. And thus Paul argues, Rom. 31. What Advantage then hath the Jew? or what Profit is there in Circumcision? Ver. 2. Much every way; chiefly, because unto them were committed the Oracles of God. You may soon know the nature of that Covenant made with Abraham's Natural Seed, and of Circumcision which was a Sign of it; the chiefest Privilege which attended it, was the giving to them, i. e. the People of Israel, the Law of the Ten Commandments.
3. Circumcision, by the Doctrine of St. Paul, was a Privilege if they kept: the Law: For Circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the Law; but if thou be a Breaker of the Law, thy Circumcision is made Uncircumcision, or a Nullity, and