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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.
Answ. This might have been left out, only it adds to the Number: this is answered by the Objector himself (be he who he will) in saying the Hebrew word for Everlasting, sometimes signifies no more than a long Continuance of Time: We know it very well; and those Mosaical Rites that ended in Christ, are said to be for everlasting. But when the Lord saith he will be a Person's God for ever and ever, or everlastingly, it denotes his being so to all Eternity: But God never said he would be the God everlastingly, or to all Eternity, to all who were concerned in the Covenant of Circumcision; nor was he Ishmael's God so, tho circumcised; and has he not cast off that whole Nation of the ⟨p. 73⟩Jews, with whom he made that Covenant? and is not so their God now, tho he is, I confess, to all Eternity, or everlastingly, the God of all Abraham's Spiritual Seed; viz. all true Believers in Christ.
Answ. This might have been left out, only it adds to the Number: this is answered by the Objector himself (be he who he will) in saying the Hebrew word for Everlasting, sometimes signifies no more than a long Continuance of Time: We know it very well; and those Mosaical Rites that ended in Christ, are said to be for everlasting. But when the Lord saith he will be a Person's God for ever and ever, or everlastingly, it denotes his being so to all Eternity: But God never said he would be the God everlastingly, or to all Eternity, to all who were concern'd in the Covenant of Circumcision; nor was he Ishmael's God so, tho circumcised; and has he not cast off that whole Nation of the ⟨p. 73⟩Jews, with whom he made that Covenant? and is not so their God now, tho he is, I confess, to all Eternity, or everlastingly, the God of all Abraham's Spiritual Seed; viz. all true Believers in Christ.
3. The third and last Argument or Note to prove the Covenant of Circumcision a Covenant of Grace, is taken from the Benefits and Blessings conveyed by it. To be a God unto him, and to his Seed, and that everlastingly, is a most comprehensive Gospel-Blessing; for hereby (say they) God gives a Person an Interest in all that he is, and in all that he has, so far as can be communicated to a Creature. This Blessing promised to Abraham comprehends Christ, Grace, Holiness here, and Glory and Happiness hereafter. And accordingly we find the Apostle,