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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. Was not the Moral Law from the beginning? and were not those that were circumcised bound to keep the Moral as well as the Ceremonial Law? How then dare you say, and prove it not, that from the beginning it was not so, i. e. It did not bind Abraham's Natural Seed exactly to keep the Moral Law, that is, to love God with all their Hearts, and their Neighbours as themselves, yea to leave and loath all Sin?
Circumcision I have proved was no Seal nor part of the Covenant of Grace, but of, and part of the Covenant of Works; so that you run into a dangerous S•are, and deceive ⟨p. 86⟩the People unwarily by your Ignorance of the two Covenants made with Abraham, and not distinguishing Circumcision from being a Seal to Abraham's Faith, and not a Seal in common to all his Children. It was a Sign to them in their Flesh, but no Seal of the Covenant of Grace. You further run a Parallel between Circumcision and Baptism, as some others before you have done: Pray take my former Answers to all you say here which I have given to other Pedo-baptists upon this foot of account.
1. Others formerly have (as well as you do now) affirmed, That Baptism comes in the room of Circumcision. 2. They run a Parallel between Circumcision and Baptism, and would have them both signify the same thing in an exact Analogy. […]:
1. Others formerly have (as well as you do now) affirmed, That Baptism comes in the room of Circumcision. 2. They run a Parallel between Circumcision and Baptism, and would have them both signify the same thing in an exact Analogy. 〈…〉: