A47591:741
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.
Answ. What doth this prove touching the Lawfulness of Infant-Baptism? we acknowledge and readily grant that they were little Children that were brought to Christ, and that he […] his Hands upon them, and blessed them; but is this a Warrant for us to Baptize our little Children?
Answ. What doth this prove touching the Lawfulness of Infant-Baptism? we acknowledg and readily grant that they were little Children that were brought to Christ, and that he 〈…〉 his Hands upon them, and blessed them; but is this a Warrant for us to Baptize our little Children?
You say As those Parents brought their Children to Christ to bless them, so do you bring them to Christ by Baptism.
Answ. And with shame you may speak it, unless you had Authority to Christ so to do: Who hath required this thing […] our Hands? May you not, as the Ancient Fathers did, by the s•me Argument bring little Children to the Lord Jesus by bringing them to the holy Sacrament of the Lord's •upper? Also you have as much ground from God's Word to do that, as to bring them to the Sacrament of Baptism
Answ. And with shame you may speak it, unless you had Authority to Christ so to do: Who hath required this thing 〈…〉 our Hands? May you not, as the Ancient Fathers did, by the s•me Argument bring little Children to the Lord Je•us by bringing them to the holy Sacrament of the Lord's •upper? Also you have as much ground from God's Word to do that, as to bring them to the Sacrament of Baptism