A47591:930
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.
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.
3. The same Persons which the Apostle saith were baptized in the Sea, and under the Cloud, are also said to eat the same Spiritual Meat, and to drink the same Spiritual Drink. Now did not the Children partake of the Lord's Supper, I mean that Typical Lord's Supper? This Text therefore proves as strongly that you may give them the Lord's Supper as Baptism, because they ate of the Manna that fell from Heaven, and drank of the Water that came from the Rock.
4. The design of the Apostle here is, to forewarn the Saints at Corinth to take heed lest they fell as the Fathers ⟨p. 166⟩fell in the Wilderness; and to caution them the more effectually, he shows them that the Fathers who fell (not the Children) in the Wilderness, had like great Privileges with them, viz. a Typical Baptism, and also a Typical Lord's Supper.
4. The design of the Apostle here is, to forewarn the Saints at Corinth to take heed lest they fell as the Fathers ⟨p. 166⟩fell in the Wilderness; and to caution them the more effectually, he shews them that the Fathers who fell (not the Children) in the Wilderness, had like great Privileges with them, viz. a Typical Baptism, and also a Typical Lord's Supper.