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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. 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 b•ed 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.
2. But because Christ's Church does not now in Gospel days take in whole Nations and whole Families, as the Jewish Church under the Law did take in the whole Nation of the Jews, and all their Families, doth Christ weaken the Promises? Sir, that external Legal Covenant erected a Typical Church, which Church ceased at the Establishment of the Spiritual Church, which is only Congregational under the Gospel, as I fully proved before.
2. But because Christ's Church does not now in Gospeldays take in whole Nations and whole Families, as the Jewish Church under the Law did take in the whole Nation of the Jews, and all their Families, doth Christ weaken the Promises? Sir, that external Legal Covenant erected a Typical Church, which Church ceased at the Establishment of the Spiritual Church, which is only Congregational under the Gospel, as I fully proved before.
But furthermore; You say, the Apostles understood Christ's Command unto them in this sense, and therefore they have preached Salvation to those that believed, and all theirs, &c.