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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.
But to conclude with this Chapter; let me speak a word to you that are Believers, and also a word to you that are Unbelievers, and I shall pass to the next Argument.
1. To you that are Believers and have Children; if they are holy and Heirs of Heaven, as they are begotten and born of your Bodies, as Mr. Owen, and other Pedobaptists assert, then you need not trouble your Thoughts about your dying Infants, tho they are not baptized; for 'tis not Baptism makes them holy, by Mr. Owen's Concession, but because they are your Children; 'tis by your Faith they are holy, as he blindly supposes.
2. And since Baptism doth not belong to them, Christ no where having commanded you to baptize them, nor can it add any thing to their Salvation; I charge you in the Fear of God baptize them not.
3. But do not believe Mr. Owen, nor any other Man in what he says, unless he can prove it from God's Word. I tell you from Christ's own Words you have ground of hope touching the State of your dying Infants, but not because they are your Children, but because of such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven, and they may be in God's eternal Election of Grace: For, as Dr. Taylor saith, and I mentioned before, God may have many ways to apply the