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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.
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, Act. 15. And in Answer to what you say, p. It was not for their Sin, nor the Sin of their Parents that Infants are excluded, or not received into the Gospel-Church, but because it was the good Pleasure of God to erect another, and more spiritual Church-state, and to remove the old Way, and Typical Church-state of Israel.
5. Therefore for you to intimate as if we were so unnatural, as to cast our Children out of God's House, is not to be endured; it doth but reflect on the Wisdom of God: we are more faithful to our Children (and not like the Ostrich) than you, for we would not allow them that Right which God hath not; nor make them think in Baptism they were regenerated and made Members of God's Church, and so deceive, and put them upon a Temptation not to seek out for any other Regeneration, and Gospel-Right to Church-Membership.
5. Therefore for you to intimate as if we were so unnatural, as to cast our Children out of God's House, is not to be indured; it doth but reflect on the Wisdom of God: we are more faithful to our Children (and not like the Ostritch) than you, for we would not allow them that Right which God hath not; nor make them think in Baptism they were regenerated and made Members of God's Church, and so deceive, and put them upon a Temptation not to seek out for any other Regeneration, and Gospel-Right to Church-Membership.