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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. That all dying Infants of Believers are elected, and so shall […] saved.
1. That all dying Infants of Believers are elected, and so shall 〈…〉 saved.
2. That all they that go to Heaven, or shall be saved, •ay, nay ought to have both Baptism and the Lord's-Supper administered to them: Nay, and it follows also, that you ought only to baptize those Children of Believers that died, or such that you have ground to believe are elected to Salvation, according to your own Argument. But let me tell you, if you knew what Children of Believers or Unbelievers are elected, yet you ought no more to baptize ⟨p. 149⟩them, than to give the Lord's-Supper. 'Tis not Election, I tell you again, that gives any a right to Baptism, but the positive Command of Christ: Might not M•lchisedec or Job have said, our Children do need what was prefigured in Circumcision, therefore we will circumcise them? would that have justified them if they had presumed to have done it without God's Command? for the Command and mere positive Precept to circumcise was only given to Abraham, and it only extended to himself, and his Male Children, or such that were in his House or Family, or bought with his Money.
2. That all they that go to Heaven, or shall be saved, •ay, nay ought to have both Baptism and the Lord's-Supper administred to them: Nay, and it follows also, that you ought only to baptize those Children of Believers that died, or such that you have ground to believe are elected to Salvation, according to your own Argument. But let me tell you, if you knew what Children of Believers or Unbelievers are elected, yet you ought no more to baptize ⟨p. 149⟩