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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.
Answ. 1. Christ invited Multitudes to come unto him, and he received them so far as to feed them with Barley-Loaves and Fishes, and to the Blessing of healing them of their Bodily Distempers: But may his Ministers therefore receive all such into their Communion?
2. In the days of Christ when he was upon Earth, there were many who are said to come unto him, whom he might receive into his Presence and Company, yet his Ministers might not baptize them, nor receive them into their spiritual Communion; nor indeed you dare not so receive infants, I mean into your Communion of the Lord's-Supper. We read of some Pharisees and Lawyers that came to Christ, and he received them into his Company, who, it appears, came to tempt him. Also the Sadducees are said to come unto him, who said there was no Resurrection; may Christ's Ministers baptize such, and receive them into their Communion? Therefore in Opposition to what Mr. Burkitt says in his Book, I affirm, there were then other ordinary ways of coming to Christ than by Admission into his Church: Christ invited the worst of Sinners unto him, who nevertheless did not receive him. Therefore there are some who must be excluded whom Jesus Christ graciously inviteth.
2. In the days of Christ when he was upon Earth, there were many who are said to come unto him, whom he might receive into his Presence and Company, yet his Ministers might not baptize them, nor receive them into their spiritual Communion; nor indeed you dare not so receive infants, I mean into your Communion of the Lord's-Supper. We read of some Pharisees and Lawyers that came to Christ, and he received them into his Company, who, it appears, came to tempt him. Also the Sadduces are said to come unto him, who said there was no Resurrection; may Christ's Ministers baptize such, and receive them into their Communion? Therefore in Opposition to what Mr. Burkitt says in his Book, I affirm, there were then other ordinary ways of coming to Christ than by Admission into his Church: Christ invited the worst of Sinners unto him, who nevertheless did not receive him. Therefore there are some who must be excluded whom Jesus Christ graciously inviteth.