A47591:721
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.
4. Therefore you do not well to call Children Dogs, if they are not in the Pale of the Visible Church.
You say, the Promises are the Inheritance of the Church, not to those that are without; and therefore, say you, if the Children be without, they are among Dogs, and what Promise belongs to them? Rev. 22. 15. and where there is no Promise, there is no hope of Salvation, &c.
Answ. 1. I answer, the Promise runs to Christ, and all that the Father hath given him, but we do not know who they are until they believe.
2. The Promises are not the Inheritance of all that are Members of the Visible Church, for they may not belong to some that are in it, and they may belong to some others that are not in it. You darken Counsel with Words without Knowledge. For, (1.) You distinguish not between the Visible and Invisible Church. (2.) Also you distinguish not between who are the Lord's decretively, and who are his actually. (3.) Moreover, you distinguish not between external Privileges, and true internal spiritual Privileges. No external Privileges, or outward Church-Membership gives any Man a Right to Salvation, nor puts him under the Promise thereof.