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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.
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!
6. I find also that Mr. James Owen hath found out the first Rise or Original of that human Tradition of the Jews in baptizing their Gentile Proselytes, both Men, Women and Children. But I am very sorry it is fathered upon holy Jacob