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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.
Jacob commanded all his Household, and all that were with him to be baptized, among which were Gentiles and their Children, therefore we Gentiles and our Children may be baptized. Yea, and our Men-Servants and Maid Servants, tho they be Negro's, whether they believe or not; for Jacob perhaps had some gross Idolaters in his Household, therefore ⟨p. 158⟩the worst of Men as well as little Children may be baptized.
Jacob commanded all his Houshold, and all that were with him to be baptized, among which were Gentiles and their Children, therefore we Gentiles and our Children may be baptized. Yea, and our Men-Servants and Maid Servants, tho they be Negro's, whether they believe or not; for Jacob perhaps had some gross Idolaters in his Houshold, therefore ⟨p. 158⟩the worst of Men as well as little Children may be baptized.
Honoured Britons! you have seen but little of this Controversy in your Language: But Mr. Owen, seeing the old Argument; which the Asserters of Infant-Baptism have brought, to be too weak to establish it to be of God, and from Heaven, out of the New Testament; he hath found out new ones never heard of by me before, I mean this of Jacob's commanding his whole Household, and all that were with him, to be clean, that is, saith he, to be baptized all of them. So that Infant-Baptism hath its Rise not from the Command of Christ, but from the Command of Jacob, and that not from Circumcision, for Jacob laid that aside because his two Sons had caused Circumcision to be odious and hateful to the Gentiles, he therefore contrived Baptism in its stead. O when will this Man cease to pervert the holy and righteous way of God in his Institution of Believers Baptism!
Honoured Britains! you have seen but little of this Controversy in your Language: But Mr. Owen, seeing the old Argument; which the Asserters of Infant-Baptism have brought, to be too weak to establish it to be of God, and from Heaven, out of the New Testament; he hath found out new ones never heard of by me before, I mean this of Jacob's commanding his whole Houshold, and all that were with him, to be clean, that is, saith he, to be baptized all of them. So that Infant-Baptism hath its Rise not from the Command of Christ, but from the Command of Jacob, and that not from Circumcision, for Jacob laid that aside because his two Sons had caused Circumcision to be odious and hateful to the Gentiles, he therefore contrived Baptism in its stead. O when will this Man cease to pervert the holy and righteous way of God in his Institution of Believers Baptism!