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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.
Thirdly, Now if that Covenant, in which God is said to be their God, was the Old Covenant, or the Legal Covenant which God hath took away, to establish the Second, What doth that signify which you affirm here?
Certainly, John would not go about to establish that Covenant which he knew his Master was ready to take away, viz. the Covenant of Peculiarity God made with Abraham and his Natural Seed, as such.
We deny not, but the free Promise that God made with Abraham is the Covenant of Grace; but that belongs not to Believers Seed, as such: For some of Unbelievers Seed may be in the Covenant of Grace, and some of Believers Seed may not, i. e. the Children of the Promise, or Covenant of Grace, or the Elect of God may lie amongst the Unbelievers Children, as well as amongst Believers Children: Tho I doubt not but more of Believers Seed are called than of others, and have greater Privileges, i. e. by the Instruction, Prayers, and good Example of their Parents, &c.
Fourthly, Tho John did not nullify the external Covenant, yet he, being to prepare Christ's way, gave the Jews a clear Intimation of the repealing of it, or the period thereof, and that now it would stand them in no