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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.
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.
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 yousay is the Signification of the word, as appeareth.
Answ. 1. I answer, you would have the form of the Commission to run according to your Scriptureless Practice of baptizing of Infants, as you call Sprinkling; but that the Commission is wrested and abused by you to serve your turn, will appear,
1. They that are the only Subjects of Baptism according to the Commission, are, first to be taught, or, as the Greek word is, discipled, or made Disciples, and then baptized: and I will appeal to your Conscience, whether they are not the same Persons that were to be taught before baptized, that our Lord commands to be taught afterwards all other things that he hath commanded baptized Believers to observe and keep. You would have the Parents converted from Heathenism to be taught before baptized, but the Teaching afterwards not to refer to them, but to their Children baptized before taught, or in their Infancy. O what abominable Abuse is this of the great Commission of our blessed Saviour!