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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.
Answ. I wonder you should affirm that John received all the Country to his Baptism, and refused none, no not the Generation of Vipers: This I deny, and you have no shadow of Reason to assert it, since he rebuked them when he saw them coming to his Baptism, and bid them bring forth Fruit meet for Repentance. Prove, if you can, that he baptized one Soul but such only that were penitent, and demonstrated the truth of their Repentance by bringing forth of the Fruits thereof.
Answ. I wonder you should affirm that John received all the Countrey to his Baptism, and refused none, no not the Generation of Vipers: This I deny, and you have no shadow of Reason to assert it, since he rebuked them when he saw them coming to his Baptism, and bid them bring forth Fruit meet for Repentance. Prove, if you can, that he baptized one Soul but such only that were penitent, and demonstrated the truth of their Repentance by bringing forth of the Fruits thereof.
'Tis very strange to me that any Man should assert that John the Baptist (whose Doctrine and Ministry by all Divines is looked upon to be very severe and sharp) should baptize all, even the worst of Men, yea such whom he called a Viperous Generation. But what is the purport of this Argument of yours for Infant-Baptism? Certainly all may easily see it: Doth it not tend to prove that all ungodly and unbelieving Men and Women are to be baptized as well as Infants?
'Tis very strange to me that any Man should assert that John the Baptist (whose Doctrine and Ministry by all Divines is look'd upon to be very severe and sharp) should baptize all, even the worst of Men, yea such whom he called a Viprous Generation. But what is the purport of this Argument of yours for Infant-Baptism? Certainly all may easily see it: Doth it not tend to prove that all ungodly and unbelieving Men and Women are to be baptized as well as Infants?