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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.
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?
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 posicively to affirm?
3. Nay, and this is not the worst of Jacob's Sins neither; for it appears by your plain words, that you suppose that the Jews from this Example of Jacob, used to baptize all the Gentiles that received Circumcision, tho it appears the Jews did not follow the Example of Jacob in throwing Circumcision away, and exchange it for Baptism, yet by Jacob's Example did baptize all their Gentile Proselytes, whether Men, Women and children; so that he caused them to set up, or add a Tradition of his own devising to God's Institution: For I challenge you or any Man under Heaven, to prove that God commanded Jacob or any Patriarch, or Jewish Rabbis, to baptize any Proselyte either young or old when received into their Church.
3. Nay, and this is not the worst of Jacob's Sins neither; for it appears by your plain words, that you suppose that the Jews from this Example of Jacob, used to baptize all the Gentiles that received Circumcision, tho it appears the Jews did not follow the Example of Jacob in throwing Circumcision away, and exchange it for Baptism, yet by Jacob's Example did baptize all their Gentile Proselytes, whether Men, Women and children; so that he caused them to set up, or add a Tradition of his own devising to God's Institution: For I challenge you or any Man under Heaven, to prove that God commanded Jacob or any Patriarch, or Jewish Rabbies, to baptize any Proselyte either young or old when received into their Church.