A47591:799
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.
5. But the truth is, the purport of your Exposition of this dark Text, all may see is to prove the Gospel-Church to be as extensive, wide and large, or every way of the same Nature and Latitude with the National Church of the Jews; and therefore you plead for the Fleshly Seed, as such, to be received as Members thereof.
Sir, I know you not, but I thought you had held for the Congregational Way; but the truth is, Infants Church-Membership is only calculated for a National Church, and therefore best suits with Presbyterism and Episcopacy.
Sir, I know you not, but I thought you had held for the Congregational Way; but the truth is, Infants Church-Membership is only calculated for a National Church, and therefore best sutes with Presbyterism and Episcopacy.
You say, the Jews and their Children were broke off, and the Gentiles and their Children were received into the same Privileges which the Jews had, &c.
Answer 1. If you would prove that the Gospel-Church is National, consisting of whole Parishes, Families and Kingdoms, you must bring Proof for this Constitution from the New Testament: Show, where Christ instituted or ordained such a Church-state, or what whole Gentile Nations, consisting of Believers and their Children, and Unbelievers or ungodly Persons professing Christianity, and their Children, were constituted by the Apostles a Gospel-Church; for evident it is, all believing or godly Jews and their Children, and all ungodly Jews who owned the Jewish Religion, and their Children, were