A47591:742
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.
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
No doubt they were brought to Christ to be healed of some Bodily Distemper, for the Lord blessed and healed Diseases by laying his Hand on the Sick; and we all know that they are capable of that Blessing, […] not of the holy Sacraments, which alone belong to Adult Persons that believe, and are able to examine themselves. True, Christ's Bowels are not straitened now he is in Heaven to young or old, but what o• th• Wisdom did not lead him to baptize little Children,, and he knows how to let out his Bowels towards them without your reaching him. Will you direct the Almighty, or have Christ to bless an Human Invention? Were i his Appointment he would no doubt bless it to little Children, but that you will never be able to prove; and it argues you have a bad Case in hand, in that you make use of such Childish Arguments to prove it; and bring Texts so remote from the Business.