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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.
The New Testament mentions but little of Infants, because so much mention is made of them in the Old Testament, which saith plainly, that the Children of the Faithful are in God's Covenant, and that the Seal of the Covenant belongeth unto them. Neither the Old Testament only, nor the New Testament only (say you) but both together, comprehend the Rule of Faith and Obedience. The Jews deny the New Testament, and some Christians among us (say you) deny the Old Testament in respect of Infant-Privileges.
Answ. 1. You seem here to deny Infant-Baptism to be found in the New Testament, therefore would have us go to Gen. 17. for it: Strange case! that a pure Gospel-Ordinance that is of mere positive Right can be found in the Old Testament.
Answ. 1. You seem here to deny Infant-Baptism to be found in the New Testament, therefore would have us go to Gen. 17. for it: Strange case! that a pure Gospel-Ordinance that is of meer positive Right can be found in the Old Testament.
2. Sir, tho the Old Testament and New together is a Rule of Faith and Obedience in many things, especially in pure Moral Precepts; yet, Sir, in Precepts merely positive, I deny the Old Testament is any Rule to us: we are not obliged to Circumcision, the Passover and Sacrifices, &c. by virtue of the Old Testament, because they only belong to the Old Covenant-Time; and as to Baptism and the Lord's-Supper, they that lived under the Old Testament were not obliged to them, because these are ⟨p. 96⟩pure Gospel-Precepts; and the New Testament only is our Rule, and a perfect Rule too upon this account. If therefore you cannot find Infants Baptism in the New Testament, you and your Childish Baptism is gone for ever.