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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. Supposing that Circumcision did, and Baptism doth signify the Corruption or Filthiness of Original Sin, or Uncleanness; must we therefore baptize our Infants without any Authority, Command or Example in God's Word?
2. Doth Baptism wash away Original Corruption? I know the Papists assert it doth do this, but how do they or you prove it? Baptism, St. Peter saith, doth not wash away the Filthiness of the Flesh, or Corruption of Natural Pollution, 1 Pet. 3. 21.
3. Your Reverend Brother Mr. Stephen Charnock fully proves that Baptism is not Regeneration, that can't cleanse from Sin. Answer his Arguments in his Book of Regeneration. What tho those Baptists in Germany you speak of, understood that the ancient erring Fathers that introduced Infant-Baptism, did bring it in to wash away Original Sin; Cannot Christ cleanse Elect dying Infants from Original Sin by virtue of his Blood, in a way unknown unto us? Must we deny Original Sin, or own Infant-Baptism does cleanse from it? Strange Divinity! you prove nothing.
3. Your Reverend Brother Mr. Stephen Charnock fully proves that Baptism is not Regeneration, that can't cleanse from Sin. Answer his Arguments in his Book of Regeneration. What tho those Baptists in Germany you speak of, understood that the antient erring Fathers that introduced Infant-Baptism, did bring it in to wash away Original Sin; Cannot Christ cleanse Elect dying Infants from Original Sin by virtue of his Blood, in a way unknown unto us? Must we deny Original Sin, or own Infant-Baptism does cleanse from it? Strange Divinity! you prove nothing.