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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.
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.
Lastly, Mr. Owen saith, If Children were baptized formerly into Covenant, ought they not to be baptized into his Covenant now, especially because the Grace of the Covenant being enlarged under the Dispensation of the Gospel, and the Privileges being more extensive?
I answer, He doth but beg the Question, asserting that which he proves not, nor is ever able to prove, viz.
(1.) That Children were baptized into the Covenant under the Law; What Pedo-baptist ever asserted this before? And in vain doth he affirm it now, especially since he cannot prove sprinkling is Baptism.