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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. By Hagar is meant, all agree, the old Covenant; and by casting her out, is held forth the abolishing, or taking away of the old Covenant. He took away the first, that he might establish the second; Heb. 10. 9.
2. By Ishmael is meant the Natural Seed of Abraham, and so the Natural Seed of all Godly Men of his Race that succeeded him, who were Members of that Church. And as the late Annotators note, by this place is signified the total Destruction of the Jewish Church, which consisted of Parents and their Children, or the whole Nation of Israel. This Church and Church-Seed, and manner of Church-Membership is cast out and gone for ever.
We say that Children were once admitted Members of the Jewish Church; but evident it is, that God hath now quite pulled down, and razed that House to the Foundation thereof, I mean that National Church of the Jews, and broke up House-keeping, and turned the Bond-woman and ⟨p. 66⟩her Son, i. e. the Fleshly Seed or Natural Off-spring of Abraham, out of Doors; the natural Branches are broken off, and God hath now built him a new and more glorious, and Spiritual House under the Gospel, into which he admitted none as his Household Servants, to dwell in this his Spiritual Family, or Gospel Church, but Believers only, or such as profess themselves so to be. Ye, saith St. Peter, as lively Stones are built up a spiritual House, &c. and that the old House, the Jewish Church-state, with all the Appurtenances, Rites and Privileges of it are abolished, or pulled down, and a new own built and set up, into which Infants are not to be admitted, is very evident: