A47591:1392
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 saith (say you). Optatus. Et quid vobis visum est non post nos sed post trinitatem baptisma geminare? Why do you rebaptize not only after us, but after the Trinity. Opt. Lib. 5. p. 51. Opt. Lib. 5. page 61. Quicunque a vobis se rebaptizari, &c. Whoever consenteth to be rebaptized by you, he ariseth up certainly but naked, because he hath permitted you to deprive him of his Wedding Garment. Austin saith, Revera enim fieri potest ut sceleratior sit Rebaptizator totius hominis quam solius corporis interemptor Aug. ad Eleusium Ep. 163. It being possible for him who baptizeth the whole Man to be worser then him, who killeth the Body only. Again, Rebaptizare haereticum hominem omnino peccatum est immanissimum. It is a sin to rebaptize an Heretic, but to rebaptize a Catholic, or one in Unity with the Universal Church, is a dreadful Sin. Aug. de unico Bapt. cap. 13. If any (say you) judge these are words too harsh, let them consider that they are Austin's words and not mine, I set them down for to show the Judgment of the Old Primitive Church about rebaptization.
Thus saith (say you). Optatus. Et quid vobis visum est non post nos sed post trinitatem baptisma geminare? Why do you rebaptize not only after us, but after the Trinity. Opt. Lib. 5. p. 51. Opt. Lib. 5. page 61. Quicunque a vobis se rebaptizari, &c. Whoever consenteth to be rebaptized by you, he ariseth up certainly but naked, because he hath permitted you to deprive him of his Wedding Garment. Austin saith, Revera enim fieri potest ut sceleratior sit Rebaptizator totius hominis quam solius corporis interemptor Aug. ad Eleusium Ep. 163. It being possible for him who baptizeth the whole Man to be worser then him, who killeth the Body only. Again, Rebaptizare haereticum hominem omnino peccatum est immanissimum. It is a sin to rebaptize an Heretick, but to rebaptize a Catholick, or one in Unity with the Universal Church, is a dreadful Sin. Aug. de unico Bapt. cap. 13. If any (say you) judge these are words too harsh, let them consider that they are Austin's words and not mine, I set them down for to shew the Judgment of the Old Primitive Church about rebaptization.
Answ. I answer, these Instances hurt not us, for it appears in both these Quotations, that the Persons rebaptized were Dipped first when baptized, and might be Believers also, for in the first, that word implieth no less, viz. riseth up, denoting he was buried in the Water. Your Infants when baptized (as you call it) cannot be said to rise up; and Austins words imply plainly the baptizing the whole Body, who baptizeth, saith he, the whole Man, but you only Sprinkle, and not the whole Body, but the Face only. These Instances make against your Rantism or Sprinkling, but since you make such a stir in charging us with rebaptization, and fain would have us be what we are branded with, viz. Anabaptists. I shall now show you the opinion also of some of the Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines, about reiterating of baptism.