A47591:931
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. 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.
Therefore nothing of this matter concerned their little Babes, nor ours neither. As to what you say of whole Households being baptized in the New Testament in this Chapter, I shall refer my Answer to that Chapter of yours where you particularly insist upon that weak Argument.