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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.
You say, Christ prayed for them whom the Father had given him, John 17. 9. and if the Children of the Faithful not of the World, but are Christ's, we should ⟨p. 127⟩suffer them to come to him, and receive his Mark which is Baptism.
Answ. 1. Are all the Infants of Believers given unto Christ, and so not of this World? Do you believe it? Sir, all that the Father hath given to Christ, shall come unto him, and every Soul of them shall be saved. Now do all the Children of the Faithful come to Christ, and shall they all be saved? or are you not to be rebuked and sharply reproved for what you write, to blind the Eyes, and deceive the Children of the Faithful, to make them think their State is good and safe, when perhaps they are in the Gall of Bitterness, and Bond of Iniquity? Had not Abraham an Ishmael, Isaac an Esau, and David an Absalom? O, and what ungodly Persons do daily still proceed from the Loins of Godly Parents! And how gracious do many Children of wicked Parents prove when grown up!
2. You know not whether these little Children were the Children of Godly Parents or not, nor who they were that brought them to Christ; their Parents might be ungodly as far as we know, and yet some of their Relations, Kindred, or Neighbours might believe that Christ would bless them, and heal them; therefore they might bring them to Christ.