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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.
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.
(2.) That all Infants were received into Covenant with God by Legal sprinkling, and not till then; but certainly all the Infants of the Jews were born Members of that National Church, therefore not received into that Church and Covenant by Circumcision (which most of the Assertors of Children's Baptism do affirm); much less not by sprinkling Blood and Water upon them: Yet that sprinkling of Blood and Water might, I deny not, be a Sign that they, and the whole House of Israel, were God's Legal Covenant People; and so the Type of the whole Spiritual Israel, who should be washed in the Blood of Christ, or Blood of the New Covenant, and sanctified by his Spirit, as is said before.
(2.) That all Infants were received into Covenant with God by Legal sprinkling, and not till then; but certainly all the Infants of the Jews were born Members of that National Church, therefore not received into that Church and Covenant by Circumcision (which most of the Assertors of Childrens Baptism do affirm); much less not by sprinkling Blood and Water upon them: Yet that sprinkling of Blood and Water might, I deny not, be a Sign that they, and the whole House of Israel, were God's Legal Covenant People; and so the Type of the whole Spiritual Israel, who should be washed in the Blood of Christ, or Blood of the New Covenant, and sanctified by his Spirit, as is said before.