A47591:642
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. I answer; 'tis a bold Assertion from your Inference and absurd Consequence, drawn from the Commission (as I have showed) to affirm, when Christ commandeth to baptize the Nations, that he meaneth Children, viz. because they are part of the Nations, but I have answered that already; when Children do believe, they ought from the Commission to be baptized, but not till then.
Answ. 1. I answer; 'tis a bold Assertion from your Inference and absurd Consequence, drawn from the Commission (as I have shewed) to affirm, when Christ commandeth to baptize the Nations, that he meaneth Children, viz. because they are part of the Nations, but I have answered that already; when Children do believe, they ought from the Commission to be baptized, but not till then.
2. As to your Similitude, 'tis much the same with that Mr. Burkit, a Pedo-baptist, hath in his Book which I lately answered. I will recite my Answer to him, which fully answers you both, and all others who talk after this ra•e; he argues from the Commission as you do. Take his Words and my Answer in order, viz.
The true Reason, saith he, why Christ bid his Disciples first teach and then baptize, was because he was sending his Apostles forth among the Heathens to convert them to Christianity; in which work we all know, that preaching of the Word must go before the Administration of the Sacraments. ⟨p. 102⟩Should, saith he, the King of England send his Ministers into Foreign Plantations to convert the Indians to Christianity, they ought not to be baptized before they are taught and instructed; but when the Parents are proselyted, and make a visible Profession of their Faith, their Children may be baptized, and afterwards instructed; as the Children of the Jewish Proselytes were first circumcised, and then taught: For tho Abraham was first taught and then circumcised, yet Isaac was first circumcised and then taught: so that the sense of our Saviour is this, Teach such as are capable of teaching, and baptize such as are capable of Baptism.