A47591:137
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. 1. I answer, tho the Word [Greek or Hebrew], in a remote Sense, doth take in Washing• yet I challenge you and all that know (or pretend to know) the Greek Tongue, whether in every place in the New Testament where the Word is mentioned, or any Derivative from it, (as it refers to Christ's Ordinance of Baptism) it doth not directly and properly signify Immersion, and accordingly rendered by Beza in his Translation.
Answ. 1. I answer, tho the Word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in a remote Sense, doth take in Washing• yet I challenge you and all that know (or pretend to know) the Greek Tongue, whether in every place in the New Testament where the Word is mentioned, or any Derivative from it, (as it refers to Christ's Ordinance of Baptism) it doth not directly and properly signify Immersion, and accordingly rendred by Beza in his Translation.
2dly. You greatly wrong that Text, Heb. 9. 19. where the Apostle speaks of sprinkling the Blood of Calves, and of Goats with Water, &c. by saying he refers to Ver. 10. where the Apostle speaks of Divers Washings; and in thus doing, you do not only abuse the Sacred Text, but you wrong your own Soul and Conscience, and the People also. Sir, do you find the Greek Word [Greek or Hebrew] (which is in ver. 10.) in ver. 19. where sprinkling is mentioned? or is it not in ver. 13, 19. as also 1 Pet. 1. 2. [Greek or Hebrew]? We may modestly affirm that no Greek Author, whether Heathenish or Christian, has ever put Baptizing for Sprinkling, or used those Words promiscuously; for as in these Scriptures you have cited, Heb. 9. 13, 19, 21. 'tis always translated Sprinkling, so there is not one place in Scripture ⟨p. 3⟩