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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. 'Tis not true what you say, Circumcision was not the Door into the Jewish Church, they were all born Members of that National Church, and therefore their Females were as truly Members (that were not required to be circumcised) as their Males.
2. Tho we grant Baptism is the initiating Ordinance into the Gospel-Church, yet it admits of no Members but Believers only; if any others upon a false Faith get into it, they have no just Right thereto, and, when discovered, are to be put out.
3. Sir, tremble at the Thoughts of what you say! It is not we, but Christ in his Blessed Gospel, that excludes Infants, or the Natural Seed of Believers, as such, from being Members of the Gospel-Church; he hath shut up that Door, viz. by Generation, i. e. being the Seed of Abraham, or Seed of Believers, as such, and hath opened the Door ⟨p. 84⟩of Regeneration: 'Tis we that believe, and our Children that the Lord our God shall call, and none else.
4. Sir, Circumcision was so far from being any such a Privilege as you intimate, that the Apostle calls it such a Yoke of Bondage, that neither they nor their Fathers were able to bear,