A47591:764
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. 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 ⟨p. 130⟩shall the Church refuse to receive all such into her Imbraces? 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.
Does Christ, says he, own them for Subjects in his Kingdom, and shall we allow them no better standing than in the Devil's Kingdom?
Answ. Does Christ own Infants to be Subjects of his Kingdom, and yet did not baptize them? (for that he did not) and shall we attempt to baptize them, as if we were wiser than he? I must again turn the Edge of the Sword upon this Man: If little Children were brought to Christ and he did not baptize them, then we must not; But little Children were brought to Christ and he did not baptize them, therefore we must not. Here is both Truth and Reason in this Argument, as Dr. Taylor confesseth, but none of either in his.