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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.
Now, Reader, having showed thee that the Exposition Mr. Owen hath given of this Metaphorical Scripture, is ⟨p. 140⟩false, and inconsistent with the Truth as it is in Jesus, I shall give thee my Thoughts of the true Purport of it; and in regard I have once done it already in my answering of Mr. Burkitt, I shall proceed to lay down his Argument and my Answer, and that will bring me to the Business directly. The Argument which Mr. Burkitt, and with him other Pedo-baptists, raises to maintain their Scriptureless Practice of Babes-Baptism from this Text, is this, viz.
Now, Reader, having shewed thee that the Exposition Mr. Owen hath given of this Metaphorical Scripture, is ⟨p. 140⟩false, and inconsistent with the Truth as it is in Jesus, I shall give thee my Thoughts of the true Purport of it; and in regard I have once done it already in my answering of Mr. Burkitt, I shall proceed to lay down his Argument and my Answer, and that will bring me to the Business directly. The Argument which Mr. Burkitt, and with him other Pedo-baptists, raises to maintain their Scriptureless Practice of Babes-Baptism from this Text, is this, viz.
If (saith he) the Infants of Christian Parents are federally holy, then they are Subjects qualified for Baptism: But the Scripture pronounces such Children federally holy; therefore they are qualified for Baptism, and may be admitted, Rom. 11. 16. If the Root be holy, the Branches are also holy, &c. Where by the Root, saith he, we are to understand Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and by the Branches, their Posterity, the People of the Jews. Now forasmuch (saith he) as the Jews, the Natural Branches, are for their Unbelief broken off, and the believing Gentiles are grafted in their stead, and succeed in their Privileges, in the sense that they were holy, not with an internal and inherent Holiness, passing by Natural Generation from Parent to Child, but with an external Relative Covenant-Holiness, grounded on the Promise made to the Faithful and their Seed.