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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.
Thus far Mr. Richard Baxter.
Sir, I thought fit to confute you in your bold Assertion, viz. that John the Baptist baptized all that came to him, even those Pharisees, that he called a Generation of Vipers, by making use of the Sword of Goliath; Reader, how this Pedo-Baptists, Mr. Baxter, hath not only overthrown Mr. Owen's argument here for Infant Baptism, but utterly hath overthrown Infant Baptism it self.
Sir, I thought fit to confute you in your bold Assertion, viz. that John the Baptist baptized all that came to him, even those Pharisees, that he called a Generation of Vipers, by making use of the Sword of Goliah; Reader, how this Pedo-Baptists, Mr. Baxter, hath not only overthrown Mr. Owen's argument here for Infant Baptism, but utterly hath overthrown Infant Baptism it self.
1. For (he saith) the Commission directeth Christ's Apostles to make Disciples, and then baptize them, p. 27.
2. (He saith,) the sum of that preaching that maketh Disciples, is repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, p. 30, 31.