A47591:917
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.
Besides, if Baptism, in the Modern Sense, were in use among the Jews in Ancient Times, why did the Pharisees ask John Baptist, Why dost thou baptize if thou art not Christ, nor Elijah, nor that Prophet? Do they not plainly intimate that Baptism was not in use before, and that it was a received Opinion among them, that there should be no Baptism till either Christ, or Elijah, or that Prophet came? So far Sir Norton Knatchbull, in his Notes printed at Oxford, Anno Dom. 1677. with the Licence of the Vice-Chancellor, a very Learned Man, and a Son of the Church of England. Sir, What think you now of your Jewish Custom of baptizing the Heathens, and their Children, who were admitted to their Church? Do you think there was not need that Infant-Baptism should be mentioned in the Holy Scripture, had it been a Truth? Is this uncertain Story of the Jewish Custom sufficient for you to build your Faith and Practice upon, when the Truth of the Story, as to Matter of Fact, may justly be doubted? But if it was true, it is but a rotten Foundation to build one of the great Sacraments of Christ upon, viz. a vile, profane and Human Tradition of the Jewish Rabbins.
Besides, if Baptism, in the Modern Sense, were in use among the Jews in Antient Times, why did the Pharisees ask John Baptist, Why dost thou baptize if thou art not Christ, nor Elias, nor that Prophet? Do they not plainly intimate that Baptism was not in use before, and that it was a received Opinion among them, that there should be no Baptism till either Christ, or Elias, or that Prophet came? So far Sir Norton Knatchbull, in his Notes printed at Oxford, Anno Dom. 1677. with the Licence of the Vice-Chancellor, a very Learned Man, and a Son of the Church of England. Sir, What think you now of your Jewish Custom of baptizing the Heathens, and their Children, who were admitted to their Church? Do you think there was not need that Infant-Baptism should be mentioned in the Holy Scripture, had it been a Truth? Is this uncertain Story of the Jewish Custom sufficient for you to build your Faith and Practice upon, when the Truth of the Story, as to Matter of Fact, may justly be doubted? But if it was true, it is but a rotten Foundation to build one of the great Sacraments of Christ upon, viz. a vile, profane and Human Tradition of the Jewish Rabbins.