A47591:64
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.
And doth it follow, because in the Covenant of Peculiarity God made with the whole House of Israel, the Parents and Children were comprehended, therefore they must be all comprehended in the Covenant of Grace also, and made Members of the Gospel-Church? He cites Deut. 4. 37, 40. And because be loved thy Fathers, therefore he chose their Seed after them. What of this? Mr. Owen can never prove that God hath chosen any one Nation, both Parents and Children, since that time, to be a peculiar People in a Covenant-Relation with himself, as he chose the Natural Seed of Abraham; it was a Typical Church, and figured forth the true Spiritual Seed or true Israel of God: Therefore that Church-State ceased at the Death of Christ, when the Partition-wall was broken down. And the extent of the Promise now, and ⟨p. xiv⟩Gospel-[…] •es, only runs to Believers and to their Children […], or who do believe, whether Jews or Gentiles, […] and to no more.
And doth it follow, because in the Covenant of Peculiarity God made with the whole House of Israel, the Parents and Children were comprehended, therefore they must be all comprehended in the Covenant of Grace also, and made Members of the Gospel-Church? He cites Deut. 4. 37, 40. And because be loved thy Fathers, therefore he chose their Seed after them. VVhat of this? Mr. Owen can never prove that God hath chosen any one Nation, both Parents and Children, since that time, to be a peculiar People in a Covenant-Relation with himself, as he chose the Natural Seed of Abraham; it was a Typical Church, and figured forth the true Spiritual Seed or true Israel of God: Therefore that Church-State ceased at the Death of Christ, when the Partition-wall was broken down. And the extent of the Promise now, and ⟨p. xiv⟩Gospel-〈…〉 •es, only runs to Believers and to their Children 〈…〉, or who do believe, whether Jews or Gentiles, 〈…〉 and to no more.