A47591:95
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.
It therefore appears from hence, that Infant's Baptismal-Covenant is directly also repugnant to Christ's true Baptismal-Covenant: For evident it is, that Christ's Baptism only belongs to Believers who are renewed, regenerated, and have Union with Christ, and so in a justified State before baptized: Our Baptism doth not oblige us to believe and to be regenerated, or to die to Sin, as such that were not dead before; but it is a sign of that Faith and Death unto Sin we had when we were baptized, or to show that we were then dead to Sin, &c. How shall we that are dead to Sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his Death? Or as being dead with him, Therefore we are buried with him into Death, Rom. 6. 2, 3, 4. Not buried alive or whilst dead in Sin: No, but as being dead to Sin. Not to oblige us to be regenerated, but, as Persons who are regenerated before, buried in Baptism. And the Covenant of Baptism is, to walk in newness of Life, as being before quickened, That like as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father, so we should walk in newness of Life.
It therefore appears from hence, that Infant's Baptismal-Covenant is directly also repugnant to Christ's true Baptismal-Covenant: For evident it is, that Christ's Baptism only belongs to Believers who are renewed, regenerated, and have Union with Christ, and so in a justified State before baptized: Our Baptism doth not oblige us to believe and to be regenerated, or to die to Sin, as such that were not dead before; but it is a sign of that Faith and Death unto Sin we had when we were baptized, or to shew that we were then dead to Sin, &c. How shall we that are dead to Sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his Death? Or as being dead with him, Therefore we are buried with him into Death, Rom. 6. 2, 3, 4. Not buried alive or whilst dead in Sin: No, but as being dead to Sin. Not to oblige us to be regenerated, but, as Persons who are regenerated before, buried in Baptism. And the Covenant of Baptism is, to walk in newness of Life, as being before quickned, That like as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father, so we should walk in newness of Life.