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…

You and Mr. Burkitt, with other Pedo-baptists, affirm, that so little is said in the New Testament about baptizing Infants, because the Custom of baptizing them was common, and the Practice constant in the Jewish Church, at and before our Saviour's time. Whilst Circumcision was the covenanting Sign, Baptism was the purifying Ceremony among the Jews; for when any of the Gentiles were admitted into the Jewish Church, both Parents and Children were first circumcised, and then washed in token of cleansing them from the Filth of their Heathenism: So that Baptism among the Jews constantly went along with Circumcision till our Saviour's time.

Answ. 'Tis a sign of a bad Cause when Men are forced to try their Wits after such a ridiculous manner to make out what they have to prove. Pray, was that Custom among the Jews of baptizing Infants, when any of the Gentiles were admitted into the Jewish Church, commanded of God? Had God given the Jews any such Law or Precept? Or was it one of their own Traditions, who in their own Wisdom, without any Warrant from their great Prophet and Law-giver, devised that Ceremony, possibly to wash away the Filth of Heathenism, as your Predecessors in like manner, without any Command or Warrant of Jesus Christ, devised the baptizing of Infants ⟨p. 160⟩to wash away the Filth of Original Sin? Doth not our blessed Saviour say that they had made void the Commandments of God through their Traditions? I do affirm, it was never given them as a Law or Precept by the great God, nor do you attempt once to prove any such thing; for there is not the least shadow of any such thing in all the Old Testament, therefore it was a mere Human Tradition.

Answ. 'Tis a sign of a bad Cause when Men are forced to try their Wits after such a ridiculous manner to make out what they have to prove. Pray, was that Custom among the Jews of baptizing Infants, when any of the Gentiles were admitted into the Jewish Church, commanded of God? Had God given the Jews any such Law or Precept? Or was it one of their own Traditions, who in their own Wisdom, without any Warrant from their great Prophet and Law-giver, devised that Ceremony, possibly to wash away the Filth of Heathenism, as your Predecessors in like manner, without any Command or Warrant of Jesus Christ, devised the baptizing of Infants