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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.
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.
2dly. Baptism (you say) signifies the pouring forth of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2. 38. Tit. 3. 5. and 'tis certain that little Children can receive the Holy Ghost from their Mothers Womb, Luke 1. 15.
Answ. We deny that Baptism signifies the pouring of the Holy Spirit, the Scriptures you cite prove no such thing. It signifies, as I have showed, the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Christ, with our Death unto Sin, or Mortification of Sin, and rising again to a new Life.