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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.
Take again my former Simile, viz. What Privileges soever are given to any Person by an Act of Parliament, which said Law was to continue so long in force and no longer, than when that time was expired; and another Parliament makes a new Law, where many things are contained that were in the last Law, but those divers Privileges given to those Persons in the former Law are left out in this latter Act: would it not be a piece of Folly for any of them to plead those Privileges by virtue of a Law that is gone, and now not in any force? But to come a little nearer the case in a more apt Simile: Suppose a Man should have a Legacy bequeathed to him by the Will and Testament of his Friend, and yet afterwards his Friend sees good to make another Will, which is his last Will and Testament, and in this last Will and Testament he leaves him quite out, not mentioning his Name, bequeathing no such Legacy to him; would it not be Folly in him to sue for that Legacy left him in the first Will and Testament?
Take again my former Simily, viz. What Privileges soever are given to any Person by an Act of Parliament, which said Law was to continue so long in force and no longer, than when that time was expired; and another Parliament makes a new Law, where many things are contained that were in the last Law, but those divers Privileges given to those Persons in the former Law are left out in this latter Act: would it not be a piece of Folly for any of them to plead those Privileges by virtue of a Law that is gone, and now not in any force? But to come a little nearer the case in a more apt Simily: Suppose a Man should have a Legacy bequeathed to him by the Will and Testament of his Friend, and yet afterwards his Friend sees good to make another Will, which is his last Will and Testament, and in this last Will and Testament he leaves him quite out, not mentioning his Name, bequeathing no such Legacy to him; would it not be Folly in him to sue for that Legacy left him in the first Will and Testament?
Sir, the Case is thus in hand, we read of two Covenants or Testaments, an old and a new, a first and a second. Now in the old Will or old Testament, Infants were admitted to this Privilege of Church-Membership in that Legal or National Church of the Jews; and National Church-Privileges are now made null and void by the Gospel-Covenant,