A47591:815
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.
But let the Jews Covenant and Standing before they were broken off be what it would, I am sure no Gentile is grafted into Christ, but by actual Faith; nor can any be grafted into the Gospel Church without the Profession of such Faith, therefore you do but beat the Air.
But let the Jews Covenant and Standing before they were broken off be what it would, I am sure no Gentile is graffed into Christ, but by actual Faith; nor can any be graffed into the Gospel Church without the Profession of such Faith, therefore you do but beat the Air.
The Jews, 'tis true, were broken off by their Unbelief, and were also no more a Church; nor is there any such kind of Church constituted under the Gospel as theirs was, viz. a National Church; for they amongst the Jews, who were the true Spiritual Seed of Abraham, receiving Christ by Faith, were planted into the Gospel Church, and between them and Gentile Believers: Now there is no difference, Jew and Gentile stand in the Church now by Faith, not by external Covenant, Privilege, Right or Holiness. Thou standest by Faith, O Believer, Mark! not by Birth-Privilege, but by Faith (saith one) yet not thy Seed by thy Faith, but thou thy self by thine, and they by their own: Faith is that by which thou standing (and not thy Seed) hast right to stand in the Church, and not they: But if thy Seed have Faith, and thou hast none, then they have right in the Church, and thou shalt be excluded. And tho under the Law we ⟨p. 143⟩deny not, but that the Natural Seed or Progeny of Abraham were all holy, with an External, Ceremonial or Typical Holiness; and consequently they were admitted to an external Participation of Church-Privileges; yet now 'tis otherwise, old things are past away: now we know no Man after the Flesh, 2 Cor. 5. 16. That Church-state is dissolved, and manner of Admission into it, by external Birth-Privilege, and that this Text doth not help you. I shall further open this place of Scripture.