A47591:928
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. But you intimate, there were many Children with them as they passed through the Sea.
To which I answer, so there were many wicked Men also; all the Israelites were not godly Persons, but many among them were profane and ungodly People: Besides, there was a mixed People passed through the Sea with the Fathers also, may be some of the Egyptians, and others of other Nations, and much Cattle also; and these were all baptized as truly as were the little Children.
To which I answer, so there were many wicked Men also; all the Israelites were not godly Persons, but many among them were prophane and ungodly People: Besides, there was a mixt People passed through the Sea with the Fathers also, may be some of the Egyptians, and others of other Nations, and much Cattle also; and these were all baptized as truly as were the little Children.
May we baptize such therefore? we have as much ground from hence to baptize such, as you have to baptize your Babes, nay more ground, if the Rain falling upon the Israelites was that which baptized them; 'tis a Question whether any Rain might fall on little Babes, if it fell on their Parents, for the Parents might cover them by holding some thing over their Heads and Bodies, &c.