A47591:671
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.
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.
2. Are there not many Children of Unbelievers elected? If so, are they not holy also? and if so, why not baptized as well as your Infants, by your Argument from hence?
3. Prove, when you write again, if you can, that there is any External, Relative, Federal Holiness of Persons or of Things in the times of the Gospel, as there was under the Law; we deny it. I affirm all External, Relative and Federal Holiness was but a Ceremonial Typical Holiness; and will you bring in Ceremonial Relative Holiness into the Gospel Church? The Gentiles and their Children being not circumcised under the Law, we grant, were in that sense unclean: But will you call all Unbelievers Children unclean now; for the Unbelievers Children you deny to be Subjects of Baptism.
You say they are unclean that are excluded from the Privileges of the Church of God, it was not for any unclean Person to come into the Congregation, although, say you, their Uncleanness was but Ceremonial.