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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.
You say, that the Gentile Church should not come short of the Privileges of the old Jerusalem, or Jewish Church; and that the desolate hath more Children than she that hath an Husband, Gal. 4. 27. and hence affirm, if Children of the Christian Church enjoy not the Privilege of their Fathers, she hath many less Children than the old Jerusalem-Church had.
Answ. I answer; the Gentile Church according to God's gracious Promise may be more than the Jewish was, when the Fullness of the Gentiles are come in, and yet no Infants Members of it.
Answ. I answer; the Gentile Church according to God's gracious Promise may be more than the Jewish was, when the Fulness of the Gentiles are come in, and yet no Infants Members of it.
Nay, there is ground to believe in the Primitive Times there were more converted among the Gentiles, than were amongst the Jews; but still I find you harp on the old String, i. e. that if the Gospel-Church be not National, and enjoy as many outward and external Privileges as the Jewish did, her Privileges are less: but you consider not the Nature, Quality and Glory of the Gospel-Church, and wherein her Privileges excel the Legal Church of old Jerusalem.