A47591:864
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.
God can give sacred Habits and Qualities to a Child we deny not, but till he doth it you are not to give them the Signs of those gracious Qualities; and if there be no visible Signs or Demonstrations of those sacred Qualities in such Infants you baptize that render them Believers, 'tis at best but a mock Baptism.
Object. If we knew that little children are regenerated, we would baptize them This is your Objection against your self, as if we argued thus.
Answ. No, Sir, you mistake us; if we did know little Infants were regenerate, which is impossible for us to know […] I doubt not but that those Infants that go to Heaven are made holy in some secret way unknown to us, because no unclean •ng can enter into Heaven) yet we durst not baptize them, because we want Authority to do it.
Answ. No, Sir, you mistake us; if we did know little Infants were regenerate, which is impossible for us to know 〈…〉 I doubt not but that those Infants that go to Heaven are made holy in some secret way unknown to us, because no unclean •ng can enter into Heaven) yet we durst not baptize them, because we want Authority to do it.