A47591:895
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. 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.
2. I have read, I must confess, in some Authors, that the Jews did receive their Proselytes both by Circumcision and Baptism; but you seem to intimate that old Jacob was so wise to dismiss Circumcision to his Gentile Proselytes. (because Simeon and Levi made it so odious) and did contrive or institute Baptism in its room, as the only Rite to receive them into God's Covenant. I must confess Jacob had many Failings, but I never heard him thus charged, and rendered guilty of such an Abomination before.
2. I have read, I must confess, in some Authors, that the Jews did receive their Proselytes both by Circumcision and Baptism; but you seem to intimate that old Jacob was so wise to dismiss Circumcision to his Gentile Proselvtes. (because Sim•on and Levi made it so odious) and did contrive or institute Baptism in its room, as the only Rite to receive them into God's Covenant. I must confess Jacob had many Failings, but I never heard him thus charged, and rendered guilty of such an Abomination before.
How, Sir! could he lay aside God's holy Ordinance of Circumcision at his Will and Pleasure, and that too because his Sons had brought a Reproach upon it; and did he devise a new Ordinance, namely Baptism, in its room? What an abominable Innovation had he been guilty of ⟨p. 157⟩should he have done this thing, which you seem positively to affirm?