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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. 'Tis evident that our Saviour in his great Commission, enjoineth no more to be baptized but such who are first taught, or made Disciples, and this agrees with his own Practice; John 4. 1. He made and baptized more Disciples than John: he first made them Disciples, and then baptized them; nor were there any in the New Testament baptized, but such who first made a Profession of Faith in Christ. Do you read that those Jews, Acts 2. that believed and were baptized, were commanded to baptize their Infants, or that any other baptized Believers among either Jews or Gentiles were commanded so to do? or have we no perfect Rule left us in the Gospel? for so it will follow if the Infants of Believers ought to be baptized.
2. If the Commission be so extensive as you affirm, then all the Heathens and Pagans in all Nations that believe not, are to be baptized, and all their Children too, and all Unbelievers Children in Christian Nations. Sir, are not these part of the Nations? Noble Britons! see the nature of the Pedo-baptists Consequences and Inferences for baptizing Infants. This Inference proves that all People and Nations in the whole World ought to be baptized from the Commission: But I will, as I once did to another Minister, appeal to Mr. Owen's Conscience, as he will answer it at Christ's Tribunal, Whether he believes the Commission authorizeth Christ's Disciples to baptize any but such who are first taught, and made Disciples, whom St. Mark calls Believers, repeating the words of the same Commission, Mark 1•. 16.
2. If the Commission be so extensive as you affirm, then all the Heathens and Pagans in all Nations that believe not, are to be baptized, and all their Children too, and all Unbelievers Children in Christian Nations. Sir, are not these part of the Nations? Noble Britains! see the nature of the Pedo-baptists Consequences and Inferences for baptizing Infants. This Inference proves that all People and Nations in the whole World ought to be baptized from the Commission: But I will, as I once did to another Minister, appeal to Mr. Owen's Conscience, as he will answer it at Christ's Tribunal, Whether he believes the Commission authorizeth Christ's Disciples to baptize any but such who are first taught, and made Disciples, whom St. Mark calls Believers, repeating the words of the same Commission,