A47591:93
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.
4. Moreover, They bring their poor Babes (without any Authority from Christ) under a Covenant, and charge them with Perjury if they break it, when grown up; (it they perform it they shall be pardoned, justified and saved) but they must be damned if they answer not the Rule of the Promise, or Baptismal-Covenant, which is to repent, to be regenerated, and so answer their new Law of Faith and sincere Obedience: So that in this Covenant lies the Conditionality of their Covenant of Grace. For no other formal Covenant is proposed by them to the People, unless they are for Mr. Joseph Allen's voluntary Covenant, contrived out of his own Head, and proposed to all devout Adult Persons to enter into, which no doubt is forbid by our Saviour as sinful: (he was a well-meaning Man.) And the Truth is, his devised Covenant seems more plausible and reasonable than Infants Baptismal-Covenant, because he would have none but such enter into his Covenant who are Adult Persons; besides, it must be with their own free Consent, whereas Children are brought into theirs, without their knowledge or consent, and are obliged ⟨p. xix⟩to do those things which they have no power to perform: And as it is not required by the Lord, so God hath made no Promise to them, of Grace and Assistance, to discharge the Obligation thereof.
4. Moreover, They bring their poor Babes (without any Authority from Christ) under a Covenant, and charge them with Perjury if they break it, when grown up; (it they perform it they shall be pardoned, justified and saved) but they must be damn'd if they answer not the Rule of the Promise, or Baptismal-Covenant, which is to repent, to be regenerated, and so answer their new Law of Faith and sincere Obedience: So that in this Covenant lies the Conditionality of their Covenant of Grace. For no other formal Covenant is proposed by them to the People, unless they are for Mr. Joseph Allen's voluntary Covenant, contrived out of his own Head, and proposed to all devout Adult Persons to enter into, which no doubt is forbid by our Saviour as sinful: (he was a well-meaning Man.) And the Truth is, his devised Covenant seems more plausible and reasonable than Infants Baptismal-Covenant, because he would have none but such enter into his Covenant who are Adult Persons; besides, it must be with their own free Consent, whereas Children are brought into theirs, without their knowledg or consent, and are obliged ⟨p. xix⟩