A47591:791
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.
therefore they were cut off through Unbelief from being the visible Church, of the which they and their Children were Members. The Gentiles, were grafted in their room, Rom. 11. 17. they and their Children were broken off, and the Gentiles and their Children shall be grafted in, for they were received into the same Privileges which the Jews had—the same Privileges belong unto them in the same Latitude, for they were grafted into that Root from which the Jews were cut off, &c.
therefore they were cut off through Unbelief from being the visible Church, of the which they and their Children were Members. The Gentiles, were graffed in their room, Rom. 11. 17. they and their Children were broken off, and the Gentiles and their Children shall be graffed in, for they were received into the same Privileges which the Jews had—the same Privileges belong unto them in the same Latitude, for they were graffed into that Root from which the Jews were cut off, &c.
Answ. 1. I answer; you had need be a good Expositor of a Metaphorical Place of Scripture, that ground so great an Argument upon it; we used to say Metaphors serve for Illustration, but are not Argumentative, they do not prove a Truth, tho they may illustrate it; therefore 'tis strange you build an Institution, an Ordinance, nay a Sacrament, as it is called, upon a Metaphorical place of Scripture.
2. Many things in Metaphorical and Parabolical Scripture run not parallel with that they are brought to ⟨p. 136⟩illustrate, therefore run not on all four, as Divines observe.