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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. In a word, all your labour is here lost about those divers Legal Baptisms and Rites under the Old Testament, and of Children being in that Covenant, because they were all Types; even that all the Elect, or all that believe in Christ, should be washed in Christ's Blood, or ⟨p. 168⟩have his Blood sprinkled upon them, and be sanctified by his Spirit: Also it was a legal external and Typical Covenant, and an external Typical Church, holding forth the true Spiritual Gospel-Church; and that, like as Circumcision and those divers washings, did belong to the whole House of Israel, whether Godly or not.
So all the true Israel, under the Gospel Dispensation, should have the Substance and Anti-type of them; and when any have attained to Faith in Christ, and have what is signified in Baptism, then and not till then they ought to be baptized: but this not simply because they are in Covenant, or have the thing signified in Baptism, but because of the express and positive Command of Christ. I say again, nothing can give being to an Ordinance that wholly depends on a mere positive Rite, but the express Will and Command of the Law-giver.
So all the true Israel, under the Gospel Dispensation, should have the Substance and Anti-type of them; and when any have attained to Faith in Christ, and have what is signified in Baptism, then and not till then they ought to be baptized: but this not simply because they are in Covenant, or have the thing signified in Baptism, but because of the express and positive Command of Christ. I say again, nothing can give being to an Ordinance that wholly depends on a meer positive Rite, but the express Will and Command of the Law-giver.
To conclude with this, I infer,