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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.
Answ. 1. This is the sense of the Apostle, strange! Can those that are the Children of the Covenant of Grace, cease to be such? May the Children of God degenerate into Dogs, Wolves, and Vipers? I thought that such as are God's Children, or Heirs according to the promised Covenant of Grace made with Abraham can never cease being the Children of God; how else is the Promise sure to all Abraham's Spiritual Seed? Do not all the Children of God partake of God's Divine Nature, and are not they all Heirs of God? Are you an Arminian? Do you plead for final falling out of God's Covenant, or from a State of true Grace? that must follow what you say here, or your Argument is gone and lost for ever.
Answ. 1. This is the sense of the Apostle, strange! Can those that are the Children of the Covenant of Grace, cease to be such? May the Children of God degenerate into Dogs, Wolves, and Vipers? I thought that such as are God's Children, or Heirs according to the promised Covenant of Grace made with Abraham can never cease being the Children of God; how else is the Promise sure to all Abraham's Spiritual Seed? Do not all the Children of God partake of God's Divine Nature, and are not they all Heirs of God? Are you an Arminian? Do you plead for final falling out of God's Covenant, or from a State of t•ue Grace? that must follow what you say here, or your Argument is gone and lost for ever.
2. Reader, 'tis plain that Ishmael, Esau, &c. and many more of Abraham's Natural Seed, nay all, as such, or •s so simply considered, were not accounted for his Spiritual Seed, or the Children of God, but only such that are God's Elect Ones, or such as believe in Christ: and 'tis plain that none of the true Children of God can degenerate so as to cease being his Children; I mean, they cannot fall totally and finally from a State of Grace, and become Vipers, &c. as Mr. Owen acknowledges some of Abraham's Seed did, which clearly shows that those Jews never were in the Covenant of Grace God made with Abraham; But, say you, they were nevertheless in the outward Dispensation of God's Covenant, &c.