A47591:844
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.
Therefore all this arguing of yours is weak and groundless.
In vain therefore is that which you say to sinful Parents, that delivered Corruption to their Children, that they should administer Medicines unto them, and so give them the Ordinance of Baptism, which Christ hath appointed for that end, that they might not fall into the bottomless Pi•.
Answ. 1. You must prove Christ hath appointed Baptism for Children, do that and your Work is done.
2. Prove that Baptism is the Medicine to cure the Disease of Original Sin, and to save Children (or Adult Persons either) from falling into the bottomless Pi•.
You seem to frighten Parents into the Belief of your Tradition: Can any thing save either young or old from Hell, but the Blood and Merits of Christ through the Sanctification of the Spirit? which Baptism can be but a Figure of, ('tis not the Medicine) nor is it appointed to any to be a Figure of that, &c. but to Believers only, who certainly have the things signified.