A47591:183
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.
2dly. From the Practice of Primitive Times.
3dly. From the Consideration of what is signified and represented in Baptism.
4thly. From those Typical Baptisms spoken of in the Scriptures.
5thly. From the nature of those Metaphorical Baptisms mentioned, viz. the Baptism of the Spirit, and that of Afflictions.
To proceed to prove the first:
Scapula and Stephens, two as great Masters of the Greek Tongue as most we have, do tell you in their Lexicons, that [Greek or Hebrew] baptizo, from [Greek or Hebrew] bapto, signifies mergo, immergo, item tingo quod fit immergendo, inficere, imbuere, viz. to dip, plunge, overwhelm, put under, cover over, to dye in Colour, which is done by plunging.