A47591:1393
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. 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.
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 implyeth 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 shew you the opinion also of some of the Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines, about reiterating of baptism.
Gregory saith l. 1. Ep. 7. That that is not said to be reiterated, which is not certainly demonstrated to have been rightly and duly done, and in another place saith, if there be an offence taken at the Truth, it is much better that offence be ⟨p. 254⟩taken than that the Truth should be deserted, the Custom of the Churches ought to submit to the words of Christ, not the words of Christ to be wrested to the Custom of the Church, in regard the words of Christ, are the foundation upon which all Customs are to be build. hom. 7. in Ezekiel.