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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.
3. I have proved (it is true) that there was a Legal and External Covenant made with Abraham, and his Fleshly Seed, in which Covenant God was said to be the God of the whole House of Israel, and was bound to them; but that Covenant is abolished and the new Covenant is not according to that, but quite different, the Fleshly Seed are not in a Relative External Covenant: […] Christ's Gospel-Church is not National. This being considered, it appears, that wh•t you say concerning Abraham being the Father of the Gentiles, signifies nothing for your purpose; for he was not the Father of any Gentiles, but of such that believe in Christ, or Elect Ones; and this you seem to acknowledge in these words, viz. the believing Gentiles are a Seed to ⟨p. 63⟩Abraham, Gal. 3. 29. But, Sir, what's this to the Business? prove if you can, that the▪ fleshly Seed of Gentile Believers, as such, are a Seed to Abraham, for 'tis that which we utterly deny, and on that foot of account the whole Controversy depends. You say the Children of the Flesh are not accounted to be the Children of God, when they break their Covenant with God; and John Baptist calleth such a Generation of Vipers.
3. I have proved (it is true) that there was a Legal and External Covenant made with Abraham, and his Fleshly Seed, in which Covenant God was said to be the God of the whole House of Israel, and was bound to them; but that Covenant is abolished and the new Covenant is not according to that, but quite different, the Fleshly Seed are not in a Relative External Covenant: 〈…〉 Christ's Gospel-Church is not National. This being considered, it appears, that wh•t you say concerning Abraham being the Father of the Gentiles, signifies nothing for your purpose; for he was not the Father of any Gentiles, but of such that believe in Christ, or Elect Ones; and this you seem to acknowledg in these words, viz. the believing Gentiles are a Seed to ⟨p. 63⟩Abraham, Gal. 3. 29