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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.
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?
You say, the unbelieving Jews would have stumbled if Paul had cast out their Children from the Church, and put them in the same Condition as the Children of Infidels.
Answ. 'Tis your mistake, he told them plainly, that the Children of the Flesh were not the Children of God, i. e. of the Promise, or of the true Gospel-Church, as such, Rom. 9. 5, 6, 7. yet they stumbled not; nay, showed them they and their Children had no external Privileges above the Gentiles, and that Circumcision availed them nothing; and yet the believing Jews stumbled not at his Doctrine. Sir, no doubt when the Jews are called they will not be of your mind, to plead the old Covenant-right of their Children, being Members, as such.
Answ. 'Tis your mistake, he told them plainly, that the Children of the Flesh were not the Children of God, i. e. of the Promise, or of the true Gospel-Church, as such, Rom. 9. 5, 6, 7. yet they stumbled not; nay, shewed them they and their Children had no external Privileges above the Gentiles, and that Circumcision availed them nothing; and yet the believing Jews stumbled not at his Doctrine. Sir, no doubt when the Jews are called they will not be of your mind, to plead the old Covenant-right of their Children, being Members, as such.