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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.
And indeed, saith he, if this Argument be not warily and restrainedly understood, an Egg is laid, out of which manifest Judaism may be hatched: but if it be taken restrainedly, it no more follows thence, but that Baptism and ⟨p. 94⟩Circumcision in some things hold forth the same, which is more plainly said of Noah's Ark, 1 Pet. 3. 21. and of the Red Sea and Cloud, 1 Cor. 10. 2. and yet we say not that Baptism succeeded in their place, much less do we infer any Rite to be instituted in their stead, respecting the same Persons; yea verily it is to be seriously thought on,
1. That by such Arguments drawn from Analogies not conceived by the Holy Ghost, but drawn out of our Wit, a new kind of instituting Right (viz. from Analogies) is brought in, besides our Lord's Precepts and the Apostles Examples.
2. This being once said, by a like Parity of Reason and arguing, it will be lawful to bring into the Christian Church under other Names and Forms, the whole Burden of Jewish Rites, yea almost out of what you will, to conclude, what you will; for who shall put a Bound to Mens feigning Analogies, when they go beyond the Lord's Precepts, and the Apostles Examples? It is well known that the Divine Appointment of Tithes to be paid, and many other things in the Writings of Divines are asserted by this kind of Argument, beside the Rule of the Lord's Precepts, and the Apostles Examples.
2. This being once said, by a like Parity of Reason and arguing, it will be lawful to bring into the Christian Church under other Names and Forms, the whole Burden of Jewish Rites, yea almost out of what you will, to conclude, what you will; for who shall put a Bound to Mens seigning Analogies, when they go beyond the Lord's Precepts, and the Apostles Examples? It is well known that the Divine Appointment of Tithes to be paid, and many other things in the Writings of Divines are asserted by this kind of Argument, beside the Rule of the Lord's Precepts, and the Apostles Examples.