A47591:669
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.
But how will it appear that they (i. e. that Children) are holy, say you? the Holy Ghost saith so in 1 Cor. 7. 14. Else were your Children unclean, but now are they holy. The Apostle in these words, say you, answereth a Question proposed by the believing Corinthians, Whether it was lawful for them to live in the State of Matrimony with those that were Infidels? they questioned this not without Cause, because Ezra commanded both the Idolatrous Wives and Children to be cast off, Ezra 9. 1, 2, 3, 4. Paul, say you, answereth, that they ought not to do the like; because the unbelieving Husband is sanctified by the believing Wife, and the unbelieving Wife is sanctified by the believing Husband.
2. You say that Children born in such a State are holy, as if both were believing; and this you deny to be Legitimation, or not being Bastards, but that it is a Federal or Covenant-Holiness. Such that were not in God's Covenant you intimate were unclean, Isa. 52. 1.
Answ. 1. Prove your Infants, as such, are in the Covenant of Grace. We deny not but all Elect Infants are decretively in that Covenant; but are your Infants, or Infants of the Faithful, as such, in the Covenant of Grace? If not, they are not in this sense holy.