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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 what Mr. Owen, in the close of his second Epistle, hath said, may open the Eyes of his Reader, tho his own be shut. Take his words.
Distinguish between the outward Dispensation of the Covenant and the inward Dispensation thereof, Rom. 9. 4, 8. All the Seed of Abraham was in the outward Dispensation, and the Seal of the Covenant belonged unto them; but none were in the inward Dispensation, save the Elect only.
Reply. Are not all Men in the World, especially where the Gospel is preached, in or under the outward Dispensation of the Gospel, or Covenant of Grace? Sure none can deny this. But doth Baptism therefore belong to them all? All the Natural Seed of Abraham we acknowledge were in the outward Dispensation of the Law, or Covenant of Peculiarity God made with him; and had great external Privileges thereby, which in some things much differed from the Privileges of such who are under the Dispensation of the Gospel: But let them be what they will, the outward Dispensation of the Gospel of Grace, doth belong as far forth to Unbelievers and their Children, as to the Children of Believers: For what is that more than the Privilege of reading and hearing the Gospel preached, or attending on the Word, in Christian Assemblies?
Reply. Are not all Men in the VVorld, especially where the Gospel is preached, in or under the outward Dispensation of the Gospel, or Covenant of Grace? Sure none can deny this. But doth Baptism therefore belong to them all? All the Natural Seed of Abraham we acknowledg were in the outward Dispensation of the Law, or Covenant of Peculiarity God made with him; and had great external Privileges thereby, which in some things much differed from the Privileges of such who are under the Dispensation of the Gospel: But let them be what they will, the outward Dispensation of the Gospel of Grace, doth belong as far forth to Unbelievers and their Children, as to the Children of Believers: For what is that more than the Privilege of reading and hearing the Gospel preached, or attending on the Word, in Christian Assemblies?