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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.
[…], what you have said in your 11th Chapter, which contains your 8th Argument, tho it may seem new to some, I shall show it is nothing at all to the purpose.
〈…〉, what you have said in your 11th Chapter, which contains your 8th Argument, tho it may seem new to some, I shall shew it is nothing at all to the purpose.
You say, the Form of Baptism was before the Law, and under the Law; and from thence infer that Children ought to be baptized under the Gospel.
Answ. 1. You may infer from the same Ground and Argument, that Clothes, Pots, Tables and Vessels ought to be baptized under the Gospel, as an Ordinance of Christ, because they were dipped, washed or baptized before and under the Law.
2. Moreover, you may infer as well that Unbelievers, yea the worst of Men and Cattle also, ought to be baptized under the Gospel, because Noah and his Children were baptized in the Ark, among which was cursed Chan: you intimate that Ham was baptized upon his Father's Faith; so that it appears the Father's Faith will not only save the Infant-Seed of Believers, but save them when they are Adult Persons also.