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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.
CHAP. VIII.
Proving that Jesus Christ hath not commanded Infants to be baptized; in Answer to what Mr. Owen affirms in the sixth Chapter of his Book, concerning Christ's Commission, Mat. 28. 19, 20.
YOU begin with the words of Christ's Commission, Mat. 28. 19, 20. thinking that he hath there commanded Infants to be baptized. We will read the words of the Commission, viz. Go ye therefore, and teach all Nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, &c.
In these words, you say, Christ commandeth, 1. To teach the Nations. 2. To baptize them. 3. To teach them. ⟨p. 97⟩Here is; say you, a twofold Teaching, one before Baptism, the other after Baptism, unto the Adult among the unbelieving Gentiles: Teaching precedes Baptism, but to the Children of such Baptism preceded Teaching; in the same manner as Abraham, being the Father of the Gentiles, was taught before circumcised, but his Children were circumcised before they were taught.This you say is the Signification of the word, as appeareth.