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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.
Mr. Burkitt's Appeal for Proof of this Argument to St. Mark 10. 3. Suffer little Children to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven, doth not his Business; they do not belong to the Kingdom of Grace, i. e. the Church; for if they did belong to that, or were of the Visible Church, as such, then he need not by Baptism make them belong to it. If Christ owns them Subjects or Members of his Visible Church, then Pedo-baptists need not add them thereto by Baptism: For if, as they are the Seed of Believers, they are already (fide foederis) not only in Covenant with God, but also belong unto his Kingdom or Church upon Earth, all the World may see that Mr. Burkitt goes about to give them that very Right or Privilege which they had before and without Baptism.
Doth Christ (saith he) take Children into his Arms, and shall his Church cast them out of her Embraces?
Doth Christ (saith he) take Children into his Arms, and shall his Church cast them out of her Imbraces?
Answ. May I not argue thus, i. e. Doth Christ receive all Persons into his Arms of Mercy, to heal their Bodily Distempers, of which perhaps some were wicked and ungodly? And ⟨p. 130⟩shall the Church refuse to receive all such into her Embraces? Besides, all those pretended Consequences make no more for Infants to be baptized, than for their receiving the Lord's-Supper, and all other Privileges that belong as well as Baptism to Adult Persons who believe or are Disciples.
Answ. May I not argue thus, i. e. Doth Christ receive all Persons into his Arms of Mercy, to heal their Bodily Distempers, of which perhaps some were wicked and ungodly? And