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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, 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, Mat. 28. 19, 20. proves nothing of this, nor hath the Lord Jesus given out another Commission to nullify his first; What ground have you to affirm so presumptuously any such thing? Dare you add and diminish to God's Word, nay alter Christ's last Will ⟨p. 108⟩and Testament in his grand Commission? Tremble at the thoughts of what you endeavour to do! Sir, the New Testament about Church-Constitution, &c. is a perfect Rule to the End of the World; and as the first Gospel-Church after Christ's Ascension at Jerusalem, was constituted, so ought all Churches to be constituted, and so to continue unto the second coming of Christ. The Ordinances are to be kept, as to the Subject and Mode of Administration, as they were first delivered to the Saints: See