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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.
2. That which is not contained in his last Will and Testament in this and other matters, is sufficient to declare his Mind and Will in the Negative. And so you know 'tis in all last Wills and Testaments among Men, if it be not expressed in the Affirmative, it needs not be expressed in the Negative; and if not, because 'tis not forbidden it may be done, so may an hundred things more; nay many Jewish Rites, and Popish Innovations too, for where are they forbid? The Sum therefore of my Answer is this: The Privileges, which are •ites, Ordinances, or Sacraments, are not so many as you would have, or so many as the Jews of old had; nor are they to be administered according as they fancy or approve of, or according to their Reasonings, but according to God's express Appointment. Rightly doth Mr. Ball in his—Book speak, Posit. 3, 4. pag. 38. But in whatsoever Circumcision and Baptism do agree or differ, we must look to the Institution, and neither stretch it wider, nor draw it narrower than the Lord had made it: for he is the Instituter of the Sacraments according to his good Pleasure; and it is our part to learn of him, both to whom, how, and to what end the Sacraments are to be administered, how they agree and wherein they differ: In all which we must affirm nothing but what God hath taught us, and as he hath taught us.
2. That which is not contained in his last Will and Testament in this and other matters, is sufficient to declare his Mind and Will in the Negative. And so you know 'tis in all last Wills and Testaments among Men, if it be not expressed in the Affirmative, it needs not be expressed in the Negative; and if not, because 'tis not forbidden it may be done, so may an hundred things more; nay many Jewish Rites, and Popish Innovations too, for where are they forbid? The Sum therefore of my Answer is this: The Privileges, which are •ites, Ordinances, or Sacraments, are not so many as you would have, or so many as the Jews of old had; nor are they to be administred according as they fancy or approve of, or according to their Reasonings, but according to God's express Appointment. Rightly doth Mr. Ball in his—Book speak, Posit. 3, 4. pag. 38. But in whatsoever Circumcision and Baptism do agree or differ, we must look to the Institution, and neither stretch it wider, nor draw it narrower than the Lord had made it: for he is the Instituter of the Sacraments according to his good Pleasure; and it is our part to learn of him, both to whom, how, and to what end the Sacraments are to be administred, how they agree and wherein they differ: In all which we must affirm nothing but what God hath taught us, and as he hath taught us.