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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 this he so, your Cause is gone: How? Are not all the infants of Believers regenerated, and in Covenant with God? Why then do you baptize all, even such that have not the thing signified when baptized, nor ever after ⟨p. 151⟩till they die? Worthy Britons! see here Mr. Owen does acknowledge that the Infants of Believers, as such, are not in Covenant, for all that are in the Covenant of Grace and have a right to the Seal of it are regenerated; alas, what is the Seal but a Seal of Regeneration, and so of eternal Salvation! Ephes. 1. 13, 14. Chap. 4. 30.
Answ. If this he so, your Cause is gone: How? Are not all the infants of Believers regenerated, and in Covenant with God? Why then do you baptize all, even such that have not the thing signified when baptized, nor ever after ⟨p. 151⟩till they die? Worthy Britains! see here Mr. Owen does acknowledg that the Infants of Believers, as such, are not in Covenant, for all that are in the Covenant of Grace and have a right to the Seal of it are regenerated; alas, what is the Seal but a Seal of Regeneration, and so of eternal Salvation! Ephes. 1. 13, 14. Chap. 4. 30.
But (you say) In others Regeneration appears very early, day by day, that is in some little Children.
Answ. 2. But are not some Children of ungodly Parents as early wrought upon and born again as the Children of the godly, why then may not their Children also be baptized? You say Mr. Eliot in his Book called, Tears of Repentance, speaks of two Indian Children who were converted before three Years old: Sir, these were not the Children of Godly Parents.