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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.
You say, That we judg the Adult holy, because they are separated unto the Lord in a Profession of Holiness, although it be too often an Hypocritical Profession, and shall we not (say you) judg the Children of the Faithful to be holy whom God so called? &c.
You say, That we judg the Adult holy, because they are separated unto the Lord in a Profession of Holiness, altho it be too often an Hypocritical Profession, and shall we not (say you) judg the Children of the Faithful to be holy whom God so called? &c.
Answ. 1. God called the whole House of Israel holy, because he separated them to himself, both Parents and Children, in a legal Church-state, whether the Parents were Believers, or faithful Persons, or real Saints, or not; but God in the Gospel hath separated none to be Members of the Gospel-Church, but such that are Adult Persons, Believers in •ued with real Holiness. There is, I tell you again, no Fleshly Relative Federal Holiness under the Dispensation of the Gospel spoken of, disprove it if you can.
2. As to the Holiness of Infants born in lawful Wedlock, they are by the Lord called holy, or a Godly Seed, Mal. 2. 15. And did he make one? (i. e. one Wife) yet he had the residue of the Spirit; and wherefore one? that he might seek a Godly Seed, that is, a godly or holy Seed by Legitimation; whether the Man or the Woman joined together in holy Matrimony, are Believers or Unbelievers, their Seed is a godly or holy Seed in this respect; and not only the Seed of the Faithful, as you intimate, but the Seed of Unbelievers also, and so not a Federal or Spiritual Holiness, as you would have it.