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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.
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.
3. Admit that to be true, and that God sometimes doth regenerate Children at three or four Years of Age.
Such Children I can baptize by the Authority of Christ's Commission, or by Virtue of his holy Precept, and none but such Children that do believe have any right thereunto. You say Solomon was very young when the Lord loved him.