A47591:732
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.
O! saith Mr. Owen, cast them not out from the Church of God, out of the Covenant of Salvation; they are your dear Children, Children of your Bodies, of your Vows. O, show them the Mercy of God! the Church of God is willing to receive them: O rent them not from the Mystical Body, of which they are Members. See pag.—
O! saith Mr. Owen, cast them not out from the Church of God, out of the Covenant of Salvation; they are your dear Children, Children of your Bodies, of your Vows. O, shew them the Mercy of God! the Church of God is willing to receive them: O rent them not from the Mystical Body, of which they are Members. See pag.—
Answ. You Godly Parents take heed what Doctrine you receive, you cannot cast your Infants out of the Invisible and Mystical Body of Christ, if they are in it, nor cast them out of the Covenant of Salvation: No, no, that's not in the Power of Mortals: We cannot receive them or bring them into the Covenant of Salvation, nor make them Members of Christ's Invisible and Mystical Body. None can do that but God himself, Christ himself; 'tis preposterous Stuff, strange Doctrine this poor Man troubles you with. Good Men may in some things be blinded and misled: Try his Doctrine, search the Scriptures, take nothing upon trust without trial.
As to your bringing of your Children into the Visible Church, so as to be Members thereof, and to have right to the holy Sacraments, they must come in at the Door of Regeneration, not by Generation; even at the same Door you came in at if you are true Members thereof: and O therefore pray for your Children, they are dear to you, bring them up in the Fear of God, command them to seek after the Knowledge of their Natural State, and to know and believe in Jesus Christ, and set them a good Example. I know not what better Counsel to give you concerning your Children.