A47591:1432
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.
1. Answ. I answer, I am grieved that a Minister, and I hope a godly Man, should be thus left to himself, or be under no better conduct about this matter, but thus to add sin to sin, whilst he writes about divine things.
2. Pray Mr. Owen, what is the purport of your Charge now in recriminating and vilifying the Sacred Ordinance of Dipping or Baptizing of Believers, this Odium must fall as well on the Primitive Churches and Holy Apostles as upon us, you see all your Brethren generally as one Man, nay the whole assembly of Divines affirm that in the Primitive times the manner of baptizing, was by dipping of the Body all over in Water, tho' they would restrain it to those Hot Countries. Will you charge the Holy Apostles, and all the Ministers of the Primitive Churches with Adultery? Or do you think we in these Cold Climates have not convenient Clothes to put on People that are to be baptized, as they had in those Warm Countries.
2. Pray Mr. Owen, what is the purport of your Charge now in recriminating and vilifying the Sacred Ordinance of Dipping or Baptizing of Believers, this Odium must fall as well on the Primitive Churches and Holy Apostles as upon us, you see all your Brethren generally as one Man, nay the whole assembly of Divines affirm that in the Primitive times the manner of baptizing, was by dipping of the Body all over in Water, tho' they would restrain it to those Hot Countreys. Will you charge the Holy Apostles, and all the Ministers of the Primitive Churches with Adultery? Or do you think we in these Cold Climates have not convenient Cloaths to put on People that are to be baptized, as they had in those Warm Countreys.
3. But if this was all, it were not so sad altogether; for it was our Lord Jesus, worthy Britons, who Ordained and appointed Men and Women, who are Believers to be Dipped in the Water in his Name; and 'tis a hard case there is no way to answer this holy Command and Ordinance, but the People that do it must be guilty of