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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.
1. Some understand it of the Covenant. 2. Some of Christ. 3. Some of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 4. Some of Abraham only.
What if I agree with the last, and say Abraham is the Root? But what Root? why, the Root of all his true Spiritual Seed: And if so, the Holiness of the Branches was real in word and spiritual; for such Holiness as is in the Root, is in the Branches: and indeed for want of ⟨p. 142⟩Faith, or of that Real and Spiritual Holiness in many of his Natural Branches (for he was a twofold Root, or Father, as I have before proved) they were rejected or broken off for their Unbelief, and the Gentiles by Faith were grafted in, they having obtained the Fatness of the Root, or the Faith and Righteousness of their Father Abraham, who was the Root or Father of all that believe. The truth is, as Mr. Tombs observes, The Holiness here meant is, first, in respect of God's Election, Holiness personal and inherent in God's Intention, Ephes. 1. 4. Secondly; It is also Holiness derivative, not from any Ancestors, but Abraham, not as a Natural Father, but as a Spiritual Father, or Father of the Faithful; and so derived from the Covenant of Grace made with Abraham.
What if I agree with the last, and say Abraham is the Root? But what Root? why, the Root of all his true Spiritual Seed: And if so, the Holiness of the Branches was real in word and spiritual; for such Holiness as is in the Root, is in the Branches: and indeed for want of ⟨p. 142⟩Faith, or of that Real and Spiritual Holiness in many of his Natural Branches (for he was a twofold Root, or Father, as I have before proved) they were rejected or broken off for their Unbelief, and the Gentiles by Faith were graffed in, they having obtained the Fatness of the Root, or the Faith and Righteousness of their Father Abraham, who was the Root or Father of all that believe. The truth is, as Mr. Tombs observes, The Holiness here meant is, first, in respect of God's Election, Holiness personal and inherent in God's Intention,