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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.
2. Can any wise Man who would do nothing in God's Service without a sufficient Rule or Warrant from the Word of God, think this a good Argument for Infant Baptism? I must tell you (as I have already told the Athenian, Society, with whom I had to do in this matter) that a Popish Tradition is every way as good as a Jewish one. You were better plead thus, the Romish Church without any Warrant from God's Word, received Infant-Baptism as an unwritten Apostolical Tradition, and in some Councils early: Qui• que parvulos re•ens ab uteris Matrum baptizandos esse […], A•ma esto. Milieu. Can 2. and anathematized or cursed all who should deny that new-born Infants were to be baptized, therefore we may baptize Infants. Why do you fly to the fabulous and idle Traditions of the Jewish Rabbins for your Childish Baptism, since you have the Testimony of so many Romish Doctors and General Councils, who positively affirm you ought to baptize your children? Sure the Authority of the latter is as good as the former.
2. Can any wise Man who would do nothing in God's Service without a sufficient Rule or Warrant from the Word of God, think this a good Argument for Infant Baptism? I must tell you (as I have already told the Athenian, Society, with whom I had to do in this matter) that a Popish Tradition is every way as good as a Jewish one. You were better plead thus, the Romish Church without any Warrant from God's Word, received Infant-Baptism as an unwritten Ap•stolical Tradition, and in some Councils early: Qui• que parvulos re•ens ab uteris Matrum baptizandos esse 〈…〉, A•ma esto. Milev. Can 2. and anathemized or cursed all who should deny that new-born Infants were to be baptized, therefore we may baptize Infants. Why do you fly to the fabulous and idle Traditions of the Jewish Rabbins for your Childish Baptism, since you have the Testimony of so many Romish Doctors and General Councils, who positively affirm you ought to baptize your children? Sure the Authority of the latter is as good as the former.