A47591:1787
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.
Others, (saith he) more probably think that the Apostle useth this Term, in regard of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism (as it was then used) the Persons going down into the Waters, and being Dipped; and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great receptacle of water, tho' the water at that time was gathered on heaps on either side of them; yet they seemed buried in the water, as Persons in that Age were when they were baptized, &c. The second was that of Noah's Ark; See Sir Norton Knatchbul, who I before Quoted, and shall here again recite his words. The Ark of Noah, and Baptism, (saith he) were both a Type and Figure of the Resurrection, not the Sign of the washing away of Sin, tho' so taken Metonymically, but a particular signal of the Resurrection of Christ. Of this, Baptism is a Lively and Emphatical Figure, as also was the Ark of Noah, out of which he returned as from a Sepulchre, to a New Life.
Others, (saith he) more probably think that the Apostle useth this Term, in regard of the great Analogy betwix• Baptism (as it was then used) the Persons going down into the Waters, and being Dipp•d; and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great receptacle of water, tho' the water at that time was gathered on heaps on either side of them; yet they seemed buried in the water, as Persons in that Age were when they were baptized, &c. The second was that of Noahs Ark; See Sir Norton Knatchbul, who I before Quoted, and shall here again recite his words. The Ark of Noah, and Baptism, (saith he) were both a Type and Figure of the Resurrection, not the Sign of the washing away of Sin, tho' so taken Metonymically, but a particular signal of the Resurrection of Christ. Of this, Baptism is a Lively and Emphatical Figure, as also was the Ark of Noah, out of which he returned as from a Sepulchre, to a New Life.