A47591:948
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.
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.
And since there being no Precept nor Precedent in all the New Testament, that any one Infant was baptized or taken into the Gospel-Church, it follows 'tis an Human Tradition.
7. That the Covenant on Sinai, and the Ceremonial Law, was not the Covenant of Grace, tho given in subserviency thereunto, and the latter a clear Figure of the Covenant of Grace, and held it forth to all such who by Faith could see beyond those Sacrifices to the Anti-type of them.