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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. 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.
2. Besides, as Dr. Taylor observes, If Baptism came in the room of Circumcision, you must baptize your Children always on the eighth day, and you must not baptize your Females at all, because none but Male Infants were then circumcised.
3 And whereas you say that Baptism signifies the same things that Circumcision did, it is not true, as will appear to all understanding Men, if they consider these Particulars following, which are so many Disparities, viz.
(1.) Circumcision was a Shadow of Christ to come; Baptism is a Sign he is already come, was dead and buried.