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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.
Answ. If we should grant that the Children of the Faithful, as such, can and do partake of the Blessings figured in Baptism; yet it doth not follow they ought to be baptized, ⟨p. 148⟩because there is no Precept or Example for it in the New Testament.
For may not I argue thus, viz. If the Children of the Faithful can partake of the Blessing prefigured in the Lord's-Supper they ought to partake of the Lord's Supper; if the invisible Grace belongs to them, the visible Sign cannot be denied unto them? This Argument is therefore as forcible to bring our Children to the Lord's Table as it is to Baptism.
Baptism signifies three things, which (you say) little Children can partake of.
1st. (You say) it signifies Remission of Sins through the Virtue of the Blood of Christ, Mark 1. 4. Acts 2. 3, 8