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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.
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.
You say, when Christ commandeth to teach all Nations before baptized, and after that their baptizing, his meaning is, teach and baptize to plant the Church, and baptize and teach to continue the Church planted among the Gentiles.
Answ. 1. I am grieved to think how bold you are in asserting that to be Christ's meaning which you affirm, which can no ways be gathered from his Commission, but 'tis directly contrary to the express words thereof, and also to the Nature of the Gospel-Church's Constitution. But you affirm what you please, and prove nothing.
2. It appears by your words, the Gospel-Church in its first Constitution, or first planting, was by Regeneration, consisting only of believing Men and Women, baptized on the Profession of their Faith, or after they were made Disciples; but after its first Constitution, or first Plantation, it was to consist of the Fleshly or Carnal Seed, and so made National, yea and to be made up of whole Nations. Pray, Sir, since the great Commission,