A47591:641
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.
When God threatens to cut off the Nations from before the Israelites, the Children were included; for the Children were not spared any more than the Fathers. On the other side, say you, when Christ commandeth to baptize the Nations for their Salvation, he meaneth the Children as well as their Parents. If a Man would command a Shepherd to shear all his Sheep, and to set on them an Ear-mark to know them from other Sheep; although the Shepherd had sheared the Sheep and marked them, if he leaves out the Lambs without marking of them, he performeth not his Duty: If he says to the Master, the Lambs were too young for shearing, true saith the Master, but they were not too young for marking, you ought to mark them, for they are a great part of my Flock. If little Children, say you, cannot receive Instruction, they can receive Christ's Mark, even Baptism, by which Christ's Sheep are divided from the Goats of the Devil: The Church of Christ is his Flock, is there no Lambs in this Flock? Christ is the good and faithful Shepherd, who giveth his Life for his Flock, John. 10. 11. and will he not care for his Lambs and Weaklings of his Flock? yea certainly he shall gather the Lambs with his Arms, and carry them in his Bosom, &c.
When God threatens to cut off the Nations from before the Israelites, the Children were included; for the Children were not spared any more than the Fathers. On the other side, say you, when Christ commandeth to baptize the Nations for their Salvation, he meaneth the Children as well as their Parents. If a Man would command a Shepherd to shear all his Sheep, and to set on them an Ear-mark to know them from other Sheep; altho the Shepherd had sheared the Sheep and marked them, if he leaves out the Lambs without marking of them, he performeth not his Duty: If he says to the Master, the Lambs were too young for shearing, true saith the Master, but they were not too young for marking, you ought to mark them, for they are a great part of my Flock. If little Children, say you, cannot receive Instruction, they can receive Christ's Mark, even Baptism, by which Christ's Sheep are divided from the Goats of the Devil: The Church of Christ is his Flock, is there no Lambs in this Flock? Christ is the good and faithful Shepherd, who giveth his Life for his Flock, John. 10. 11. and will he not care for his Lambs and Weaklings of his Flock? yea certainly he shall gather the Lambs with his Arms, and carry them in his Bosom, &c.