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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. 1. I answer; Here you charge us home, and lay horrid Evil at our Doors, that do deny the Children of Believers, as such, to be in the Covenant of Grace: but how unjustly and unrighteously we are charged by you, I shall, God assisting, make appear.
2. Sir, Are all Believers Children in the Covenant of Grace? I affirm, and will stand by it, if so, they shall all be saved, because all and every Soul that was, or is in the Covenant of Grace made with Abraham, shall be saved, because it is an immutable Covenant, and God's Promise and Oath are passed to secure them of Eternal Life. Sir, the Natural Seed of Abraham, as such, never had any ground of strong Consolation; God never made a Promise, and bound it with an Oath, that they should all be saved; I speak of Abraham's Fleshly Seed, as so considered, or as such; for if he had made such an immutable Covenant with them, and confirmed it by his Oath, What is become of his Promises and Oath, since he hath cast off Abraham's Natural Seed? O how preposterously you argue! See Rom. 9. 6. Not as tho the Word of God hath taken none Effect: For they are not all Israel which are of Israel: Neither because they are the Seed of Abraham are they all Children; but in Isaac shall thy Seed be called, i. e. They that are the Children of the Flesh, i. e. as such, these are not the Children of God; but the Children of the Promise are counted for the Seed. Sir, this Text says as much as we do affirm. The Spiritual Seed of Abraham, viz. all the Elect of God, or Believers only, are in the immutable Covenant, and have strong Consolation; but who can tell or know who they are that are God's Elect Ones until they believe, or are under effectual Vocation? and that Election runs only to Believers Seed, as such, you will not say: For many Children of Unbelievers we se• daily are in God's eternal Election by their special Vocation, and many Children of Believers are not elected, because never called..
2. Sir, Are all Believers Children in the Covenant of Grace? I affirm, and will stand by it, if so, they shall all be saved, because all and every Soul that was, or is in the Covenant of Grace made with Abraham, shall be saved, because it is an immutable Covenant, and God's Promise and Oath are passed to secure them of Eternal Life. Sir, the Natural Seed of Abraham, as such, never had any ground of strong Consolation; God never made a Promise, and bound it with an Oath, that they should all be saved; I speak of Abraham's Fleshly Seed, as so considered, or as such; for if he had made such an immutable Covenant with them, and confirm'd it by his Oath, What is become of his Promises and Oath, since he hath cast off Abraham's Natural Seed? O how preposterously you argue! See