A47591:565
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.
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. 〈…〉:
[…] Say they, which you seem to affirm also, If Baptism succeeds in the room of Circumcision, then as the Jewish Infants were circumcised, so the Infants of Christians may and ought to be baptized: But Baptism succeeds in the room of Circumcision: Therefore as their Children were circumcised then, so may ours be baptized now.
〈…〉 Say they, which you seem to affirm also, If Baptism succeeds in the room of Circumcision, then as the Jewish Infants were circumcised, so the Infants of Christians may and ought to be baptized: But Baptism succeeds in the room of Circumcision: Therefore as their Children were circumcised then, so may ours be baptized now.
Answ. 1. There is no necessity that a Gospel-Ordinance must succeed in the room of a Legal or Jewish Ordinance. What if I affirm, that no Ordinance succeeds in the room of Circumcision? Were there not many other Rites and Ordinances under the Law, or Old Testament, besides Circumcision? and yet you cannot find, or once imagine any Gospel-Rite or Ordinance to come in the room of them respectively, for that then it would follow, there would be as many Christian Rites, Precepts and Ordinances, as there were Jewish Rites, Precepts and Ordinances, which, as one observes, were more than three hundred.