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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.
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.
O, Sir, what Privileges had the Gentiles or their Children then! is not the case mended with us?
Again, 'tis objected by some Pedo-baptists, If it were the Will of God, Infants under the Gospel should be reckoned as out of his Covenant who were in Covenant, then it follows, say they, that our Saviour was unfaithful, or forgetful to his Church, in that he never acquainted her with this Alteration; but not one word by way of Prohibition do we find in all the New Testament: ⟨p. 69⟩from whence we may conclude, that Christ's not repealing the Practice of initiating Infants, nor forbidding their Admission into the Church by Baptism, &c.
Answ. 1. I answer, Had it been the Will of God that Infants should under the Gospel be admitted into the Church by Baptism, Christ, you might rather say, had been forgetful or unfaithful in not giving the least Intimation of his Mind and Pleasure therein, who declared all things plainly from the Father, and was faithful as a Son over his own House.