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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. 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.
Put to come to your Answer.
That (say you) cannot be certainly known of the Adult, therefore by this Objection none can be baptized. 'Tis sufficient in this case, that the Promise of God belongs to the Infant• of the Faithful: They are Members of the visible Church through which the Line of G• Election runneth, Rom. 9. 4, 5. & Chap. 11. 7.