A47591:194
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.
Leigh in his Critica Sa•r•, saith, the native and proper Signification of the word is to dip into the Water, or plunge under Water; Mat. 3. 6. Acts 8. 38. for which also he quotes Casaubon, Bullinger, Zanchy, Spanhemius: he saith withal that some would have it signify washing, which Sense […], he saith, opposed, affirming that it was not otherwise so than by Consequence; for the proper Signification was such a dipping or plunging as Dyers use for dying of Cloth.
Leigh in his Critica Sa•r•, saith, the native and proper Signification of the word is to dip into the Water, or plunge under Water; Mat. 3. 6. Acts 8. 38. for which also he quotes Casa•bon, Bullinger, Zanchy, Spanhemius: he saith witha• that some would have it signify washing, which Sense 〈…〉, he saith, opposed, affirming that it was not otherwise so than by Consequence; for the proper Signification was such a dipping or plunging as Dyers use for dying of Cloth.
Salmasius saith, That is not Baptism which they give to Children, but Rantism.