A47591:178
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. Because '•is positively said, that John was baptizing in Enon near Salim, (John 3. 23.) because there was much Water there. Certainly the Holy Ghost would not have given this as the Reason why John baptized near Enon, viz. because there was much Water in that place, if a little Water, namely a Spoonful or two, would have been sufficient, or two or three Quarts: It seems plainly deducible from this Text, it cannot be administered with a little Water, but contrariwise it doth require much Water.
1. Because '•is positively said, that John was baptizing in Enon near Salim, (John 3. 23.) because there was much Water there. Certainly the Holy Ghost would not have given this as the Reason why John baptized near Enon, viz. because there was much Water in that place, if a little Water, namely a Spoonful or two, would have been sufficient, or two or three Quarts: It seems plainly deducible from this Text, it cannot be administred with a little Water, but contrariwise it doth require much Water.
Secondly; Pray consider, that as the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper holds forth, or represents (symbolically) the breaking of the Body of Christ, and the shedding of his Blood, (and to that purpose it was in part instituted) ⟨p. 11⟩even so the Sacrament of Baptism holds forth in as lively Figure, that our blessed Lord was dead, buried, and rose again; and to this end this holy Ordinance was also instituted, as also to show forth our Death unto Sin, and Vivification to Newness of Life, as by and by shall be abundantly proved, both from the holy Scriptures, and a multitude of learned Men that hold Infant-Baptism: therefore since a little Water cannot in this Ordinance represent Christ's Burial and Resurrection, it follows directly that a little Water will not serve to baptize Persons in, but that it must be administered in Rivers, Ponds, or places where there is much Water, i. e. so much Water as that the Body may be buried or covered all over therein. But to proceed, you say, Neither is dipping or sprinkling essential unto this Ordinance, but washing with Water, or putting Water on the Body; for the word Baptism signifies in the Greek washing with Water, as we cited (say you) from