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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.
Therefore you object, How can Children be bound to that which they are ignorant of? You answer, They were ignorant of the Bond of Circumcision, and yet were bound over to the Law to take him to be their God, and to depart from the ways of Sin, &c.
Answ. Because God obliged and bound over the Jews by Circumcision in their Infancy in that Legal Covenant, to love the Lord their God with all their Hearts, to take him to be their God, and to depart from all the ways of Sin, nay to keep the Law perfectly, (which showed the necessity of Christ's Righteousness and Merits) which was nevertheless upon this respect a Yoke of Bondage, which Yoke by Christ we and our Children are delivered from: Will you adventure to bring your poor Children under another like Yoke of Bondage? Christ's Yoke is easy, and his Burden is light, because he gives all that are to be baptized his Spirit, and a changed Heart to love God, and cleave to him, and serve him; but you make his Yoke as hard as the Yoke of Circumcision, by putting Baptism on your poor Infants, to oblige them thereby to be regenerated and love God with all their Hearts, before Grace in the Habit of it is infused into them, and all this without the least Authority from Christ or the Gospel. O cruel Parents! Sirs, who hath required this at your Hands? You shall hear more of this hereafter.
Answ. Because God obliged and bound over the Jews by Circumcision in their Infancy in that Legal Covenant, to love the Lord their God with all their Hearts, to take him to be their God, and to depart from all the ways of Sin, nay to keep the Law perfectly, (which shewed the necessity of Christ's Righteousness and Merits) which was nevertheless upon this respect a Yoke of Bondage, which Yoke by Christ we and our Children are delivered from: Will you adventure to bring your poor Children under another like Yoke of Bondage? Christ's Yoke is easy, and his Burden is light, because he gives all that are to be baptized his Spirit, and a changed Heart to love God, and cleave to him, and serve him; but you make his Yoke as hard as the Yoke of Circumcision, by putting Baptism on your poor Infants, to oblige them thereby to be regenerated and love God with all their Hearts, before Grace in the Habit of it is infused into them, and all this without the least Authority from Christ or the Gospel. O cruel Parents! Sirs, who hath required this at your Hands? You shall hear more of this hereafter.