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After several debates between divers individuals of the contending parties , both sides agreed to preach upon the disputed subject , at a place called Pen-y-lan , near Vreni Vayvr , and * iot far from Mr . Owen's native place . Mr . John Thomas , ai
Presbyterian or Independent minister , preached first , on infant baptism j and , on a succeeding day , Mr . John Jenkins , a Baptist minister , and grandfather of the present Dr . Jenkins , of Walworth , preached on believer's baptism . Mr . Thomas , it seems , carried himself on that occasion with rather a high , hand , and when his opponent , Mr . Jenkins , requested to be favoured with a si g ht of his notes , he scornfully refused , saying that they were in Greek : at least , so the old people thereabout used to say forty or fifty years ago . Mr . T . lived , I think , at a place called Llwyn-y-grawyr , in Cardiganshire , The result of these proceedings was , that many of the reputable members of Mr . Thomas ' s own church , and , I think , of some
other neighbouring Pcedobaptist churches , soon after joined the Baptists . This excited no small alarm among the Pcedobaptists in those parts , and they applied to the learned and venerable Samuel Jones , of Brynllwarch , to take up his pen in their defence ; but he declining it , the business was readily taken up by our Mr . O . his former pupil , than whom the party could not have found , perhaps any where , a fitter or abler advocate . His extensive learning and eminent polemical talents , together with hisaccurate and thorough knowledge of his mother tongue , the Welsh , highly qualified him for this undertaking . Mr . O . ' s book came out in 1693 , entitled " Bedydd Plant o ' r Nef , " which is in English , " Infant-baptism from Heaven . " It was the first piece that appeared in
Welsh on the baptismal controversy , and not inferior , probably , to any thing that has since appeared on that side of the questidru Of course , it made no small noise and stir in the country , and rendered it necessary for the Baptists also to have recourse to the press in their own vindication ; but , unfortunately for them , they had not one , it seems , ainono-
themselves , within the whole country , that was capable of entering the lists with Mr . O . They were therefore obliged to apply to England ; nor does it appear that they had any one , even there , of their own countrymen , that could be thought equal to the task ; they were accordingly obliged to look among their
English brethren , and they fixed upon Mr . Benjamin Keach . To have fixed upon Mr . J oseph Steunett , perhaps , had been still wiser , who was every way Mr . O . ' s equal , whether as a scholar , a theologian , or a polemic . Mr . Keach , however , was an able disputant , and the Welsh ministers were better acquainted , and some of them in the habit of corresponding , with him .
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4 OO Biographical Sketches .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/8/
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