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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.
CHAP. IX.
In Answer to Mr. James Owen's seventh Chapter: proving that the Children of the Faithful ought not to be baptized, because they are said to be holy; wherein 1 Cor. 7. 14. is examined, and clearly explained, with the sense of many learned Men, both Pedo-baptists and others, on the said Text.
MR. James Owen thus begins in his seventh Chapter, viz. If the Children of the Faithful are holy, then Baptism appertaineth unto them; for all confess that Holiness gives Right to Baptism, if they allow that Faith gives Right, which is the Root of Holiness in the Adult.
Answ. We do deny that Holiness (I mean true Gospel-Holiness) simply in it self, without Christ's Command, gives right to Baptism. No, Sir, you go too fast; Holiness did not give right to Circumcision, but the mere positive Command of God to Abraham: for if it did, Lot, Job, &c. had as much right to Circumcision, and their Male Infants, as Abraham and his Male Infants; but that Holiness gave no right to Circumcision, simply considered in it self, appears, because, as I have before showed, all the Male Infants of those wicked Persons that sprang from Abraham's Loins by Natural Generation, had as undoubted right to Circumcision, by virtue of God's Command to Abraham, as had those holy Mens Male Children that were of his Natural Seed. Moreover, 'tis neither Faith, the Seed, nor Holiness the Fruit, that gives right to Baptism, simply considered, but the positive Command of Jesus Christ, which, I affirm, indeed runs to such who have Faith, Repentance, and true actual Holiness, but not a Civil or Matrimonial Holiness, as this is of which the Apostle speaks,