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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.
Sir, now you have no way left, but to see since the old Covenant is cancelled, whether you can find the Baptism of Infants in the New Testament, and there taught, laid down and prefixed to it, as Circumcision was to the Old? Do that and you do all; do not that, and all you do is just nothing. You with others seem to say that the Privileges of the Gospel are straiter and narrower than those of the Law.
Sir, now you have no way left, but to see since the old Covenant is cancelled, whether you can find the Baptism of Infants in the New Testament, and there taught, laid down and prefix'd to it, as Circumcision was to the Old? Do that and you do all; do not that, and all you do is just nothing. You with others seem to say that the Privileges of the Gospel are straiter and narrower than those of the Law.
Answ. If you once imagine, that the outward or external Privileges of the Gospel are larger, or so large as those were under the Law, you are greatly mistaken. The Jews and Jewish Teachers or Priests had many external Privileges, which Christians and Ministers under the Gospel have not; they had a lovely Country promised to them, a Land that flowed with Milk and Honey: outward Peace, Riches, and gathering of Wealth, where Privileges belonged to them; but we under the Gospel have no such Privileges, but are to expect Persecution, and what not? Yet our Privileges are better and greater, tho more spiritual; 'tis a Covenant established upon better Promises: Our Children, when grown up, sit under the clear and glorious Light of the Gospel, which they and theirs then held forth but in dark Shadows.
Moreover, then the Church-state was confined to the Natural Seed of Abraham, &c. but now all in all Nations who repent and believe the Gospel; the poor Gentiles are now become fellow-Heirs indeed. Our spiritual Privileges do infinitely excel theirs, but not in Externals; now are greater Infusions of the Holy Spirit.