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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.
4. But perhaps you will say, you argue for the external Privileges of the Covenant of Grace to belong to your Children, as such, and not the spiritual and special Blessings of it.
Answ. If so, the case is still worse: for then it will follow, that God in the Covenant of Grace hath by his Promise and Oath, and Immutability of his Counsel, given to all Persons ground of strong Consolation, that only have a share in the outward Rites and external Parts of the Covenant of Grace.
Sir, deliver your self as well as you can from being ground to pieces between these two Mill-stones.
But why must your Children only have but part of the external Privileges of the Covenant of Grace, who only partake of Baptism, and not of the Lord's-Supper? Is not Faith required of all such that ought to be baptized, as well as it i• required in all that partake of the Lord's Supper to examine themselves? neither of which Infants are capable to do.