A47591:1413
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.
2. But the worst is behind, who is it you cast this reproach upon? Is it upon us? Or is it not upon Christ himself? Did not our Lord Jesus Institute this Ordinance of Baptizing, i. e. of dipping the Bodies of Men and Women in water? Sir were not those Men and Women that were Baptized in the Apostolical times Dipped? Do you descent from all the Ancient and Modern ⟨p. 258⟩Divines; I have Quoted a multitude of them in this Treatise, who positively assert this matter, to which Chapter I refer my Reader.
Ambrose saith, water is that wherein the Body is plunged.
Chrysostom saith, That the Body baptized is buried in the Water. Basil the Great, and Dr. du Veil saith same.
Chrysostom saith, That the Body baptized is burried in the Water. Basil the Great, and Dr. du Veil saythe same.
Bernard saith, Immersion is a representation of Death and Burial.