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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.
See Dr. Owen on the Hebrews, 3d Vol. Pag. 256. The Covenant of Grace in Christ is made only with the Israel of God, the Church of the Elect. Pag. 291. The new Covenant is made with all, who effectively and eventually are made Partakers of it; and if they are not so with whom the New Covenant is made, it comes short of the Old in Efficacy, who were actual Partakers of the benefit of that, that is, of those external Benefits.
3. Nor doth that which you mention help you, viz. that in that Covenant made with Abraham and the whole House of Israel, 'tis said God would be their God, or a God to Abraham and to his Seed in their Generations. For,
First, God may be said to be the God of a People divers manner of ways, as Dr. Bates observes.
1. Upon the account of Creation, thus he is our God and Father; O Lord thou art our Father, we are the Clay, and thou art our Potter, and we are all the works of thy Hands, Isa. 64. 8