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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.
3. The First-born of Israel were holy, the Priests Sons had a right to the Ministry, or Priesthood; show when they were cast out, and lost both those Prerogatives: and that very way you must take to answer will serve to answer your self in respect of Infants Church-Membership: The Answer must be this, the National Church, and Church-Membership, and Priesthood of the Jews are dissolved, and taken away, and thereby all those external Rites and Prerogatives the Jewish Children had, are gone.
3. The First-born of Israel were holy, the Priests Sons had a right to the Ministery, or Priesthood; shew when they were cast out, and lost both those Prerogatives: and that very way you must take to answer will serve to answer your self in respect of Infants Church-Membership: The Answer must be this, the National Church, and Church-Membership, and Priesthood of the Jews are dissolved, and taken away, and thereby all those external Rites and Prerogatives the Jewish Children had, are gone.
4. These were as Legacies left in the old Will, in the old Testament: but there is a new Will made, or Christ hath made his last Will and Testament, and in this his last Will and Testament, none of these external Rites or Prerogatives (as you call them) are left to Infants. Sir, there is no need in a new Will, in the last Will and Testament, to mention Negatives, that is not usual; not what is not left, but only in the Affirmative, what is left: therefore in vain is this Flourish, it will do your People, who are shaken in their Belief of your Tradition, no good.
5. You bid them call for a Scripture from those that oppose their Practice in the Negative, i. e. that forbid Infants Church-Membership, or speak where they were cast out. O how dangerous is your Doctrine! May not the Papists say to them also, Where do you read holy Water and holy Garments are forbid? Moses commanded the People to be sprinkled with Water, and many other Rites that were among the Jews. We say the Papists call for Scripture where those things are forbid which they have among them, or when God cast them out of the Church? What Human Tradition may not be let into the Church at this Door?