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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.
To them to whom Circumcision did agree, to them Baptism doth agree; but Circumcision did agree to Infants; therefore also Baptism, &c. The Major he endeavours thus to prove, i. e. If the Baptism of Christ succeeds in the room and place of Circumcision, then Baptism belongs to them that Circumcision belonged to: but the Antecedent is true, therefore the Consequent. The Minor he says is proved from Col. 2. 12. 'tis said the Colossians were circumcised because baptized.
Answ. This Argument supposeth Baptism to succeed in the room of Circumcision, which may be understood many ways.
1. So as that the sense be, that those Persons may be baptized, which heretofore by God's Appointment were to be circumcised, and in this sense the Argument must proceed, if it conclude to the purpose: but in this sense it is false, for Females were not circumcised, which yet were ⟨p. 93⟩baptized, as Acts 8. 12, 13, 14. & 16. 14, 15. and Believers out of Abraham's House, as Lot, Melchizedek, Joh, were not to be circumcised, but believing Gentiles are universally to be baptized.
1. So as that the sense be, that those Persons may be baptized, which heretofore by God's Appointment were to be circumcised, and in this sense the Argument must proceed, if it conclude to the purpose: but in this sense it is false, for Females were not circumcised, which yet were ⟨p. 93⟩