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…

Mr. Burkitt I must confess makes that Custom that was among the Jews a grand Argument for Infant-Baptism; and, as if the New Testament without the Old was not a sufficient Rule for the Practice of Gospel-Baptism, but that we must have recourse to the Old Testament as well as the New.

To which I answer; That tho in some Points of Faith and Practice the Old Testament and the New together is the Rule by which we ought to walk, yet his Trumpet and yours in this case gives an uncertain Sound: For in respect of Practice, were there not many Laws and Precepts given to the People of the Jews, which no ways in the least concerns us or God's Spiritual Israel under the Gospel? If you explain your self no better, you may soon subvert the People, and carry them away to Judaism with a witness; •y and instead of baptizing Children upon such a Childish and Erroneous foot of Account, make them think they ought to circumcise them, as some of late here in England were deluded to do. Therefore ⟨p. 159⟩we say, as to all Precepts of the Gospel that are mere positive Laws, the New Testament is our only Rule without the Old. Christ alone is our Law-giver, and him and not Moses we are only to hear and hearken unto; tho as to matter of Faith the Old Testament may be useful to us in many respects, and also all Precepts that are purely Moral in their own Nature; The Old Testament is a Rule to us as well as the New, which I might show in many respects, not only touching the Law of the Decalogue, but also about days of Prayer, singing God's Praises, Fasting-days, &c. But for any to intimate in the Case of Baptism, that the Old Testament is a Rule of Practice, or in respect of Jewish Church-Membership, such strangely betray their Ignorance, as will further appear hereafter. For that Circumcision was a mere Legal or Jewish Rite, I shall evidently anon fully prove.

To which I answer; That tho in some Points of Faith and Practice the Old Testament and the New together is the Rule by which we ought to walk, yet his Trumpet and yours in this case gives an uncertain Sound: For in respect of Practice, were there not many Laws and Precepts given to the People of the Jews, which no ways in the least concerns us or God's Spiritual Israel under the Gospel? If you explain your self no better, you may soon subvert the People, and carry them away to Judaism with a witness; y and instead of baptizing Children upon such a Childish and Erroneous foot of Account, make them think they ought to circumcise them, as some of late here in England were deluded to do. Therefore