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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 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.
And remarkable 'tis that Peter spake these words to the Jews, The Promise is to you and your Children, &c. But to say, the Promise runs to them and to their Infants, as to Baptism and Church-Membership under the Gospel, as Circumcision and Legal Church-Membership did under the Law, is notoriously false; none of the Jews Children were allowed Baptism, or received into the Gospel-Church, but only such that did believe, nor of the Gentiles neither; when their Children believe, or are called, then they may be baptized, and they have right to the Promise of the holy Spirit.
And remarkable 'tis that Peter spake these words to the Jews, The Promise is to you and your Children, &c. But to say, the Promise runs to them and to their Infants, as to Baptism and Church-Membership under the Gospel, as Circumcision and Legal Church-Membership did under the Law, is notoriously faise; none of the Jews Children were allowed Baptism, or received into the Gospel-Church, but only such that did believe, nor of the Gentiles neither; when their Children believe, or are called, then they may be baptized, and they have right to the Promise of the holy Spirit.