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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.
Thus far Reverend Dr. Jer. Taylor, Lib. of Proph. p. 234, 235.
For what the Bishop hath said answers all you affirm on this Text for Infants Baptism. The Promise of the Spirit we grant runs to Believers, and to all their believing Seed and Off-spring, be they Jews or Gentiles; and this Text proves nothing more. It did not belong to the Jews Seed, as such, but only to their Children that did believe, and so it doth to the Gentiles, that were sometimes afar off, that believe, and to their Children that God shall also call, as he doth call their Parents.
That which you seem to affirm from this Text is this, viz. that there is such a Covenant made with Gentile Believers, and with every particular Believer, and his Carnal Seed, as God made with Abraham, which is strange Divinity. We have proved that there was a Covenant of Peculiarity made with Abraham and his Natural Seed, to which Circumcision did belong, and by virtue of that Covenant, as appertaining to the Flesh. There was under the Law a knowing of Men, the Jews in that Legal and External Covenant had the Preference above the Gentiles; but that Covenant is taken away, and that Partition Wall is pulled do•n, and now the Jews have no Advantage upon that account above the Gentiles, or the Gentiles above the Jews, old things being passed away, and old Church State and Church-Membership gone; so that all you say upon this Scripture and Argument signifies nothing.