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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.
1. The Commission runs, Teach them in all Nations, whether Jews or Gentiles. 2. Baptizing them that are taught, or made Disciples by teaching. 3. Teaching them, i. e. the same them that were Disciples, baptized.
Dare you invert, nay subvert the sacred Commission, and so make void the Command of God to uphold your own Tradition? Sir, tremble at the thoughts of it!
Answ. 2. That this which we say is the true Purport of the Commission, is acknowledged by Mr. Perkins, Mr. Baxter, and other Pedo-baptists. Take Mr. Perkins's own words, First of all, saith he, 'tis said, Teach them, that is, make them Disciples by teaching them to believe and repent: here, saith he, we are to consider the Order which God observes in making a Covenant with Men in Baptism. First of all, he calls them by his Word and ⟨p. 98⟩Spirit to believe and repent; then in the second place, he makes a Promise of Mercy and Forgiveness, and thereby he seals his Promise by Baptism: They, says he, that know not, nor consider this Order which God used in covenanting with them in Baptism, deal preposterously, overslipping the Commandment of repenting and believing, which is the cause of so much Profaneness in the World.