A47591:996
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.
6. You say John came to prepare the way of the Lord, the end of his baptism was to bind all the People to believe in the Lord Jesus, which was to come. Faith was not the condition of John's Baptism, but the end thereof; his Baptism laid a particular obligation on all the Seed of Abraham to receive Christ, Children as well as others, were bound to receive him when they came to Age, because Baptism was a sign of that obligation, &c.
6. You say John came to prepare the way of the Lord, the end of his baptism was to bind all the People to believe in the Lord Jesus, which was to come. Faith was not the condition of John's Baptism, but the end thereof; his Baptism laid a particular obligation on all the Seed of Abraham to receive Christ, Childred as well as others, were bound to receive him when they came to Age, because Baptism was a sign of that obligation, &c.
Answer. Could you prove what you say, it was something to your Business, viz. that John baptized all, even ungodly Parents as well as Children, which Mr. Baxter from God's word hath fully confuted.
2. Also then it must follow, that the baptism of John, and that baptism administered by the Apostles, differed in an essential part, which you your self but a little before, do utterly deny, and affirm that they were both essentially, one and the same baptism, only one unto him that was to come, and the other into him that was come, Dead, and Risen again: Now, was not Faith and Repentance the condition of that Baptism administered by the Apostles; did not they require Faith, and a profession of Faith of all they admitted to Baptism; the Scriptures, Mr. Baxter cites in the aforementioned Book of his, fully proves they did, and that those things were prerequisites of it, therefore Baptism as administered by John, and by the Disciples of Christ, was not only to the end, they should be obliged to believe and repent, but Faith and Repentance was the condition or qualification of all they baptized. For John (nor the Apostles neither) would take a bare verbal profession of Repentance of those that came to Baptism; John commanded them to produce the Fruits of Repentance, or to bring forth Fruit meet for Repentance, and this was his way to prepare the way of the Lord, or to prepare a People for the Lord's Spiritual Building; he preached, Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. That Vow or Promise in Baptism that you dream of, prepares no Man for Christ, nor fits