A47591:632
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.
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.
This Man, tho a Pedo-baptist, yet durst not be so bold as to invert the Order of the Commission, nor do as you do, viz. affirm the Teaching mentioned after Baptism, refers not to Believers baptized after they are made Disciples, but to their Infants baptized, of which the Commission speaks not one word, nor can it by any colour of Reason or Consequences be drawn therefrom. But to prove your false Exposition of the Text, you proceed to do it, First from God's Promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that in their Seed should all the Nations of the Earth be blessed, Gen. 18. 18. & 22. 18. Christ came, say you, to confirm the Promise unto the Fathers, that ⟨p. 99⟩the Gentiles might glorify God for his Mercy, Rom. 15. 8, 9. If God is not a God to the Gentiles and their Seed, according to the Promises made to the Fathers, then, say you; Christ weakeneth and not confirmeth the Promises: God forbid we should think so, &c.
Answ. 1. God forbid that you should rest always under such dark and cloudy Conceptions of the Covenant and Promises made to the Fathers touching the Gentiles; for the Covenant and Promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were, that the Gentiles, through Faith in Christ, should be Fellow-heirs with the Jews that believed in him, and with the s that bed also. And thus runs the Covenant of Grace to Abraham, &c. and thus it runs to believing Gentiles, that all of them, and their Children that believe, or are in the Election of Grace, shall be saved: And 'tis thus that all the Nations of the Earth are blessed in Christ, whether Jews or Gentiles, i. e. all such in all Nations that believe, and are called by the preaching of the Gospel.