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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.
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.
Doubtless he said right; for you who baptize Infants that are not capable to repent nor believe, make a multitude of profane Christians in the World, as they are called: Who knows which of the Infants you baptize God will call, and savingly work Grace in, which should indeed be wrought in all, before they are, according to the direct Order or From of the Commission, or ought to be baptized? O what profane Wretches doth your Practice bring into your Church, if all you baptize you make Members thereof in their Infancy! Mr. Perkins doubtless did not foresee how by his honest Exposition of the Commission he overthrew his Infant-Baptism and Church-Membership. Moreover, take Mr. Richard Baxter's words, speaking of the Commission Christ gave to his Disciples, Mat. 28. 19, 20, viz.
Their first Task (saith he) is to make Disciples of them, which are by Mark called Believers. The second work is to baptize them, whereto is annexed the Promise of Salvation. The third work is to teach them (that are baptized Believers) all other things which are after to be learned in the School of Christ. To contemn this Order (saith he) is to contemn the Rules of Order; for where can we find it if not here? See Mr. Baxter's Right of Baptism,pag. 144, 150.