A47591:894
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) Circumcision was abominable in the sight of the Gentiles, because the Children of Jacob made it to be an Ordinance of Mortality unto the Sichemites, Gen. 34. and the greatest part of Jacob's Household were Gentiles, therefore Jacob received their Wives and Children into God's Covenant through washing of Water, or Baptism; and according to the Example of Jacob they used to baptize all the Gentiles that received Circumcision; for their wise Men sp• thus, None are Proselytes until circumcised and baptized. Light•. vol 1. p. 210. And they baptized the Children with the Parents; little ones are to be baptized according to the Ordinance of the Counsel. M••n. in Light.
But (you say) Circumcision was abominable in the sight of the Gentiles, because the Children of Jacob made it to be an Ordinance of Mortality unto the Sichemites, Gen. 34. and the greatest part of Jacob's Houshold were Gentiles, therefore Jacob received their Wives and Children into God's Covenant through washing of Water, or Baptism; and according to the Example of Jacob they used to baptize all the Gentiles that received Circumcision; for their wise Men sp• thus, None are Proselytes until circumcised and baptized. Light•. vol 1. p. 210. And they baptized the Children with the Parents; little ones are to be baptized according to the Ordinance of the Counsel. M••n. in Light.
Answ. 1. If this be so, that the Baptism of Children was among the Jews, or in the Jewish Church from the beginning, why do you plead for Baptism to come in the room of Circumcision? it appears your Infant-Baptism is near or altogether as old as Circumcision it self, therefore it could not come in the room of that.