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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.
And as touching those Consequences that Mr. Owen and others draw from some Scriptures, to prove Infants Baptism, you will find in the ensuing Answer, those Consequences do not arise naturally from those Texts, but are only his own ungrounded Suppositions, and mistaken Apprehensions. ⟨p. xii⟩Mr. Owen, in his Epistle to the Courteous Welshmen, saith, The greatest part of the true Church judg that the Children of the Faithful have a right to Baptism, because they are in the Covenant of God: This Opinion is agreeable to the Scriptures, as it appears, saith he, in this Book.
Reply. What Covenant is it he means? Our Children, as such, are in, I know not, they are not in the Covenant of Grace; for if all the Children of the Faithful were in the Covenant of Grace, they must be all saved: This I have in this Treatise fully proved, there is none can fall finally away that are in this Covenant. Besides, if they were in the Covenant of Grace, why must they have Baptism administered to them from this foot of Account, and not the Lord's Supper, and all other Privileges of the Church?
Reply. What Covenant is it he means? Our Children, as such, are in, I know not, they are not in the Covenant of Grace; for if all the Children of the Faithful were in the Covenant of Grace, they must be all saved: This I have in this Treatise fully proved, there is none can fall finally away that are in this Covenant. Besides, if they were in the Covenant of Grace, why must they have Baptism administred to them from this foot of Account, and not the Lord's Supper, and all other Privileges of the Church?
2. They are not in the Covenant of Peculiarity God made with Abraham's Natural Seed, as such, or with the whole House of Israel; for that was a Typical Covenant, and is taken away.