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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.
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.
Answ. 1. I have answered this already. We say and prove that Infants were never received at all into the Gospel-Church, therefore cannot be said to be cast out of it.
2. We deny what you affirm without any Proof, viz. That Infants were always Members of the Visible Church since Adam: Prove, if you can, they were received as Members before that Typical Church-state which was constituted in Abraham's Family.