A47591:712
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.
Camera on the place saith, [For the unbelieving Husband hath been sanctified] an unusual change of the Tense, that is, sanctified in the lawful use of Marriage: for without this, saith he, it would be that their Children should be unclean, that is, infamous, and not legitimate; whoso are holy (that is, during the Marriage) are without all Blot or Ignominy.
Erasmus upon the place saith thus, Infants born of such Parents, as one being a Christian, the other not, are legitimately holy; for the Conversion of either Husband or Wife doth not dissolve the Marriage which was made when both were in Unbelief.
Nay, I find a very learned Divine to affirm, that the Ancients expounded this place no otherwise. None, saith he, that ever I met with expounded it of Federal Holiness, till the Controversy of the Anabaptists in Germany arose.
Nay, I find a very learned Divine to affirm, that the Antients expounded this place no otherwise. None, saith he, that ever I met with expounded it of Federal Holiness, till the Controversy of the Anabaptists in Germany arose.