A47591:673
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.
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.
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, altho, say you, their Uncleanness was but Ceremonial.
Answ. Sir, God showed Peter that Jews and Gentiles are now all one in Gospel-times: Circumcision nor Uncircumcision renders Persons clean or unclean. None now are cleansed or accounted clean, but such who believe, or have Faith in Christ. All that you say about unclean Persons, and things under the Law, signifies nothing to the purpose in hand, because the Holiness under the Law was either Ceremonial or Typical, which none can or dare plead for under the Gospel-Dispensation, seeing the Substance and Antitype is now come.
Answ. Sir, God shewed Peter that Jews and Gentiles are now all one in Gospel-times: Circumcision nor Uncircumcision renders Persons clean or unclean. None now are cleansed or accounted clean, but such who believe, or have Faith in Christ. All that you say about unclean Persons, and things under the Law, signifies nothing to the purpose in hand, because the Holiness under the Law was either Ceremonial or Typical, which none can or dare plead for under the Gospel-Dispensation, seeing the Substance and Antitype is now come.