A47591:684
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.
You say, Mr. Tombs saith, If Children are Members of the visible Church, they ought to be baptized.
I do not remember Mr. Tombs saith so, and if they are Members of the visible Church before baptized, they cannot be made Members by Baptism. 'Tis absurd to say to a Man, Come into this House; or to say, Bring such a Child into the House, that is in it before.
For Baptism, say you, is the Door through which we come into the Church of God: Those that say they are not Members of the Church of God, ought, you say, to show us a plain Scripture for their casting out, if they can, of one Church since Adam until this latter Age, of which little Children were Members, &c. And again, you say, if they were cast out, how comes it to pass that there is not one word in Scripture mentioned of it? call for a Scripture from those that would shake your Faith concerning this Prerogative.
For Baptism, say you, is the Door through which we come into the Church of God: Those that say they are not Members of the Church of God, ought, you say, to shew us a plain Scripture for their casting out, if they can, of one Church since Adam until this latter Age, of which little Children were Members, &c. And again, you say, if they were cast out, how comes it to pass that there is not one word in Scripture mentioned of it? call for a Scripture from those that would shake your Faith concerning this Prerogative.