A47591:1431
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.
9. This form of Baptizing by Dipping of the People naked, or near naked, you say, is a breach of the Seventh. Commandment, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Mat. 5. 28. This Commandment prohibiteth not only the Act of Adultery, but every occasion ⟨p. 260⟩and provocation thereto; every immodest and unreverend Action, is a degree of Adultery, the Heart of Man is deceitful and desperately wicked, Jer. 17. 9. therefore we ought to take heed of every occasion of Sin. David fell into Adultery by beholding Bathsheba washing, &c. 2 Sam. 11. 2. Thus we see that God would not have his People be naked in the Congregation, or half naked, for there is but little difference between both, Exod, 20. 26. and ch. 28. 42. but they that rebaptize by Dipping the People in public, put off the greatest part of their Clothes; the re-baptizer, and He or She that is baptized is near naked, which might be a temptation to him that is the Baptizer, and to the Spectators, if the temptation will not take hold on the Minister, who is but Flesh and Blood as others are, such a behaviour before a mixed Congregation, brings him under a reproach, and maketh the worship of God contemptible.
9. This form of Baptizing by Dipping of the People naked, or near naked, you say, is a breach of the Seventh. Commandment, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Mat. 5. 28. This Commandment prohibiteth not only the Act of Adultery, but every occasion ⟨p. 260⟩and provocation thereto; every immodest and unreverend Action, is a degree of Adultery, the Heart of Man is deceitful and desperately wicked, Jer. 17. 9. therefore we ought to take heed of every occasion of Sin. David fell into Adultery by beholding Bathsheba washing, &c. 2 Sam. 11. 2