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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.
3. But is it so indeed, did our Saviour say nothing of Infant Baptism? or, as you hint, leave so little of it in the New Testament, because it was the constant Custom among the Jews to baptize the Children of Heathens before they admitted them into their Church? What Dr. Hammond, Taylor, and Lightfoot have said upon that account, is to their Shame and Reproach rather than to their Honour, tho I know it was their last Refuge, when they saw your Scripture-Proofs would not prove it to be a Truth of Christ. O how are we beholden to the Jewish Talmud and Jewish Rabbins for our Infant-Baptism! Nay, which is worst of all, how is Christ beholden to them for that rare Invention, who had said so much for it, and made it so common a Practice among them, that it saved him the Pains to give the least Directions about it? ⟨p. 161⟩But is not this next to Blasphemy? Can any Man in his right Wits think our Lord Jesus should confirm a Tradition and Innovation of the Jews? Or take his great Ordinance of Baptism from the Superstitious, Fabulous and Erroneous Custom of their Doctors and Rabbins? Besides, was Baptism to be preached or practised by none but the Jewish People? Doth it not belong to the Gentiles too? Did not our Saviour command his Disciples to go into all Nations, and make Disciples, and baptize them? &c. Was it in his Mind that Infants should be baptized, and yet say nothing of it, because it was a common Custom and Practice among the Jews? But, pray, what must the Gentiles do to know this to be their Duty? (I mean those Gentiles who received the Christian Faith) viz. that they ought to baptize their Children who did not know, nor ever heard of that Jewish Custom? Or dare you say our New Testament is not authentic, or sufficient to teach us the whole of Gospel-Duties, and Obedience, without the Jewish Talmud? You should not ('tis plain) only have said the New Testament is not without the Old the Rule of our practice; but also that the New Testament, and the Old, without the Jewish Talmud, is not sufficient, and then you had done your Business at once. Why are not Men ashamed thus to go about to blind and deceive the poor People?
3. But is it so indeed, did our Saviour say nothing of Infant Baptism? or, as you hint, leave so little of it in the New Testament, because it was the constant Custom among the Jews to baptize the Children of Heathens before they admitted them into their Church? What Dr. Hammond, Taylor, and Lightfoot have said upon that account, is to their Shame and Reproach rather than to their Honour, tho I know it was their last Refuge, when they saw your Scripture-Proofs would not prove it to be a Truth of Christ. O how are we beholden to the Jewish Talmud and Jwish Rabbins for our Infant-Baptism! Nay, which is worst of all, how is Christ beholden to them for that rare Invention, who had said so much for it, and made it so common a Practice among them, that it saved him the Pains to give the least Directions about it?