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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.
2. I also deny his Minor, and say, the Scripture of the New Testament doth not pronounce the Children of believing Parents federally holy: The Text Rom. 11. 16. speaks not one word of Infants, nor one word of such a kind of federal Holiness. Dr. Thomas Goodwin, who was a very Learned Man, urging that Text, 1 Cor. 7. 14. (tho a Pedobaptist) In the New Testament (saith he) there is no other Holiness spoken of, but Personal or Real by Regeneration; about which he challenged all the World to show to the contrary.
2. I also deny his Minor, and say, the Scripture of the New Testament doth not pronounce the Children of believing Parents federally holy: The Text Rom. 11. 16. speaks not one word of Infants, nor one word of such a kind of federal Holiness. Dr. Thomas Goodwin, who was a very Learned Man, urging that Text, 1 Cor. 7. 14. (tho a Pedobaptist) In the New Testament (saith he) there is no other Holiness spoken of, but Personal or Real by Regeneration; about which he challenged all the World to shew to the contrary.
And Sir, with your favour, if you cannot from any place of the New Testament prove there is any such Holiness spoken of, you are to be blamed for bringing in a private and an unwarrantable Interpretation of that Text. I find there are various Interpretations of what is meant by the Root in that place.
1. Some understand it of the Covenant. 2. Some of Christ. 3. Some of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 4. Some of Abraham only.