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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.
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.
It i• manifest that the Children of the Faithful, as such, are not in the Covenant of Grace God made with Abraham; but that there was a twofold Covenant made with him, and that the Covenant of Grace only appertains to the Elect of God, whether they be Children of Believers or Children of Unbeliever•, which is not known to us until they are grown up, and are brought by the Spirit of God under special Vocation and Regeneration; and that they are the Adult only, viz. such as believe, that have right to Baptism, but that not by virtue of the Covenant of Grace, but by virtue of the positive Command of Christ in the New Testament. Sir, you mistake again, it was not by virtue of the Covenant of Grace, that Persons had right to Circumcision; for if so, then Lot, and Melchizedek, and Abraham's Males as soon as they were born had a right to it, as also his Females; nothing gave right to Abraham's Male-Infants to Circumcision but the mere positive Command of God to him, which extended only to those Males in his own House, or bought with his Money, and not till ⟨p. 79⟩the eighth day: for such that died before the eighth day, tho Males, had no right to be circumcised, nor had his Females any right thereto; so none but Believers, when they can give an account of their Faith, by virtue of Christ's express and positive Command, ought to be baptized. Pray remember the Covenant of Grace, as such, gives no right to Baptism; for if it did, all Believers or Elect Persons had right to it from the first Introduction or Declaration of it to Adam upon the Fall. No, no, it is a pure Gospel-Ordinance, and merely positive, and only depends upon the Will and Pleasure of the Law-giver, Jesus Christ.