A47591:1695
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.
19. Seeing the Greek Church uses Immersion to this Day, and not aspersion or Sprinkling, may not it be a great argument against Sprinkling, seeing also that they disown the Baptism of the Latin Church, because they do not Dip: For doubtless the Greeks best know the genuine, literal and proper signification of that Word, that Tongue being their own Natural Language, in which the New Testament was Originally written.
20. What reason can be given why Nazianzen an Eminent Greek Father should Counsel the deferring the ⟨p. 304⟩Baptism of Infants until the third or fourth year of their Age (except in danger of Death) if it were in Nazianzen's time, as some suppose it was, the Opinion of the whole Church, as also his own, that Infants by an Apostolical Tradition, were to be baptized as such, that is as soon as born.
20. What reason can be given why Nazianzen an Eminent Greek Father should Counsel the deferring the ⟨p. 304⟩Baptism of Infants untill the third or fourth year of their Age (except in danger of Death) if it were in Nazianzen's time, as some suppose it was, the Opinion of the whole Church, as also his own, that Infants by an Apostolical Tradition, were to be baptized as such, that is as soon as born.
21. Whither all the Fathers of the Third and Fourth Century, both of the Greek and Latin Church, who have wrote any thing about Infant Baptism, do not unanimously give this as the reason why Infants should be baptized, viz. for to wash away Original Sin, or the putting them into a capacity of Salvation; and some of them, particularly St. Austin sentencing Infants to Damnation if not Baptized.