A47591:754
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.
If Infants, saith he, be capable of Christ's Blessing on Earth, and of his Presence in Heaven; if they be Subjects of his Kingdom of Grace, and Heirs of his Kingdom of Glory; then they have an undoubted right to the Privilege of Subjects, among which the Seal of the Covenant is not the least.
Answ. 1. We answer, and argue thus to the first part of the Proposition, viz.
In many of the Jews and others who were ungodly Persons, were capable of Christ's Blessings, i. e. of being healed of their Bodily Diseases, they were Subjects of Baptism: Is this sound arguing? What farther Blessing Christ vouchsafed to Infants, when he laid his Hands upon them, we know not, for that was the way Christ took oftentimes in the healing the Sick, and so blessed many Persons that never were baptized, as we read of.
2. We (as I have before told you) do deny Infants are Subjects of the Visible Church; therefore if by the Kingdom of Grace any intend not that, they beat the Air: Alas! such •o arguing beg, and prove not; besides, it doth not follow, I say again, tho Infants may be Heirs of the Kingdom of Glory therefore they have an undoubted right to the Privileges of the Subjects of God's Church; for then it would follow they have right to one Privilege as well as to another, and are to have Fellowship with the Saints and Household of God, as well as Baptism.