A47591:946
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. That God received none of his People under the Law into Covenant, through Baptism, or through sprinkling of Water and Blood: And that the sprinkling of Blood was a Figure of the Atonement of Christ's bloody Sacrifice, and the sprinkling of Water of the sanctifying Virtue of the Spirit in Sanctification, and not that Gospel-Baptism was signified thereby.
5. That 'tis only the mere positive Command of Christ in the New Testament, that gives being, and a just Right, to Gospel-Baptism.
5. That 'tis only the meer positive Command of Christ in the New Testament, that gives being, and a just Right, to Gospel-Baptism.
6. That tho the Children with their Parents were taken into the Legal or Typical Jewish Church, by God's positive Command, that being a National and Typical Church, yet no Children or Parents are by the positive Command of Christ in the New Testament to be received into the Gospel-Church, ⟨p. 169⟩but only those of them that believe and are washed in the Blood of Christ, and sanctified by the Sacred Water of the Holy Ghost; sith the Church of God now is not National, but Congregational, not consisting of the Fleshly, as such, but the Spiritual Seed of Abraham.