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…

Now I answer, as I have answered him, you can't be ignorant, but that you know well enough this Text hath been fully opened by divers learned Men as well Pedobaptists as Anti-pedobaptists, who prove the Holiness here spoken of, is no such External Relative Federal Holiness you dream of. In the first place, you speak right, it was about that very matter that the Corinthians wrote to St. Paul, viz. Whether the believing Husband might live or cohabit with the unbelieving Wife? &c. So that the Scope and Coherence of the Text opens the matter, and shows what Holiness 'tis the Apostle intends, viz. a Matrimonial Holiness; for should he make their Marriage void, their Children would be unclean or illegitimate, i. e. Bastards: for tho […] true, the case was not as Mr. Burkitt says concerning Men and Whores, but about Husbands and Wives, yet he honestly says it was about the Lawfulness of their Marriage, as in Ezra's time, when some were commanded to put their Wives away, because their Marriage was unlawful. Now such, say we, as is the Sanctification or Holiness of the unbelieving Wife or Husband, is the Sanctification or Holiness of the […], and that Mr. Burkitt grants to be a Matrimonial Sanctification, so as that they might lawfully cohabit together a Man and Wife. And indeed if the Children had ⟨p. 117⟩from hence an External Relative Federal Holiness, it would follow also that the unbelieving Husband and Wife had such an External Relative Federal Holiness likewise, and that would open the same Door to baptize the unbelieving Husband or Wife. For may not another Person argue thus, The unbelieving Husband is holy or sanctified by the believing Wife, and therefore by virtue of her Faith may and ought to be baptized? Mr. Burkitt reads [to] the believing Husband, and indeed I find the Greek word is elsewhere so rendered.

Now I answer, as I have answered him, you can't be ignorant, but that you know well enough this Text hath been fully opened by divers learned Men as well Pedobaptists as Anti-pedobaptists, who prove the Holiness here spoken of, is no such External Relative Federal Holiness you dream of. In the first place, you speak right, it was about that very matter that the Corinthians wrote to St. Paul, viz. Whether the believing Husband might live or cohabit with the unbelieving Wife? &c. So that the Scope and Coherence of the Text opens the matter, and shews what Holiness 'tis the Apostle intends, viz. a Matrimonial Holiness; for should he make their Marriage void, their Children would be unclean or illegitimate, i. e. Bastards: for tho true, the case was not as Mr. Burkitt says concerning Men and Whores, but about Husbands and Wives, yet he honestly says it was about the Lawfulness of their Marriage, as in Ezra's time, when some were commanded to put their Wives away, because their Marriage was unlawful. Now such, say we, as is the Sanctification or Holiness of the unbelieving Wife or Husband, is the Sanctification or Holiness of the , and that Mr. Burkitt grants to be a Matrimonial Sanctification, so as that they might lawfully cohabit together a Man and Wife. And indeed if the Children had