A47591:190
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.
Pasor, an Immersion, dipping or Submersion.
Vossius says it implies a washing the whole Body.
Mincaeus in his Dictionary saith that [Greek or Hebrew] à [Greek or Hebrew], is in the Latin Baptismus, in Dutch Doopsit or Doopen, Baptismus or Baptism, to dive or duck in Water, and the same with the Hebrew [Greek or Hebrew] Tabal, which the Septuagint, or Seventy Interpreters render [Greek or Hebrew] baptizo, to dip. This Casaubon saith was the right of way Baptizing, that Persons were plunged into the Water, which the very word Baptizo sufficiently demonstrates, which as it does not extend so far as to sink down to the bottom to the hurt of the Person, so it is not to swim upon the Superficies of the Water. Baptism ought to be administered by plunging the whole Body into the Water.
Mincaeus in his Dictionary saith that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 à 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is in the Latin Baptismus, in Dutch Doopsit or Doopen, Baptismus or Baptism, to dive or duck in Water, and the same with the Hebrew 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Tabal, which the Septuagint, or Seventy Interpreters render 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 baptizo, to dip. This Casa•bon saith was the right of way Baptizing, that Persons were plunged into the Water, which the very word Baptizo sufficiently demonstrates, which as it does not extend so far as to sink down to the bottom to the hurt of the Person, so it is not to swim upon the Superficies of the Water. Baptism ought to be administred by plunging the whole Body into the Water.