A47591:773
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.
2. We therefore may rather conclude, had they been the Subjects of Baptism, Christ, by not hinting any such thing in the least on this occasion, might rather have left us in a Snare, in speaking nothing of it neither here nor at any other time.
3. Therefore Christ speaking so favourably of Infants, and yet baptizing them not, may teach us to judg favourably of them, and do any charitable Office towards them, but not to presume to give them holy Baptism without Christ's Warrant no more than any other Gospel-Ordinance. 'Tis no matter what Calvin spoke, 'tis no Sin to keep such out of Christ's (visible) Fold, whom he has given no Authority to take in: Nor have any People a more charitable Opinion of the State of dying Infants than those styled Anabaptists.
3. Therefore Christ speaking so favourably of Infants, and yet baptizing them not, may teach us to judg favourably of them, and do any charitable Office towards them, but not to presume to give them holy Baptism without Christ's Warrant no more than any other Gospel-Ordinance. 'Tis no matter what Calvin spoke, 'tis no Sin to keep such out of Christ's (visible) Fold, whom he has given no Authority to take in: Nor have any People a more charitable Opinion of the State of dying Infants than those stil'd Anabaptists.
4. Those who are capable of some kind of Blessings of Christ, we have showed, are notwithstanding not capable of Baptism. We read not the Disciples baptized these little Children, nor any else.
4. Those who are capable of some kind of Blessings of Christ, we have shewed, are notwithstanding not capable of Baptism. We read not the Disciples baptized these little Children, nor any else.