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…

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, 1 Cor. 7. 14. as will appear by and by; Else were your Children unclean, but now are they holy.

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 meer 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 shewed, 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, 1 Cor. 7. 14. as will appear by and by; Else were your Children unclean, but now are they holy.