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…

Mr. Daniel Rogers says, that a Minister is to dip in Water the Party baptized, as the meetest Act, the word Baptizo notes it; for, saith he, the Greeks wanted not words to express any other Act besides dipping, if the Institution could bear it: What Resemblance of the Burial and Resurrection of Christ is in sprinkling? [mark that!] all Antiquity and Scripture (saith he) confirms that it was dipping.

If you would, saith Dr. Du-Veil, attend to the proper Signification of the word; in the Synod of Caelichyth, Anno 816. where Wolfred Archbishop of Canterbury presided: Let, saith he, the Presbyters beware that when they administer the Sacrament of Baptism, they do not pour Water upon the Heads of the Infants, but let them be always plunged in the Font according to the Example of the Son of God himself, who was plunged in the Waters of Jordan. Thus must the Ceremony be performed according to order: See Dr. Du-Veil on the Acts, Chap. 2. p. 5, 6, 7.

The said learned Doctor saith in the same place, The constant Practice of the universal Church till the time of Clement V. who was crowned Pope Anno 1305, under whom, first of all, the second Synod of Ravenna approved the Abuse brought into some Churches about an hundred Years before, that Baptism without any necessity should be administered by Aspersion. Hence it came to pass, that contrary to the Analogy, or intended Mystical Signification of this Sacrament, all the West, for the most part, has in this Age the use of Rantism, that is Sprinkling instead of Baptism, as Zepper speaks, to the great Scandal of the Greeks and Russians, who to this day plunge into the Water those they baptize, and deny any one to be rightly baptized, who is not plunged into the Water, according to the Precept of Christ, as we find in Sylvester Squropulus.

The said learned Doctor saith in the same place, The constant Practice of the universal Church till the time of Clement V. who was crowned Pope Anno 1305, under whom, first of all, the second Synod of Ravenna approved the Abuse brought into some Churches about an hundred Years before, that Baptism without any necessity should be administred by Aspersion. Hence it came to pass, that contrary to the Analogy, or intended Mystical Signification of this Sacrament, all the West, for the most part, has in this Age the use of Rantism, that is Sprinkling instead of Baptism, as Zepper speaks, to the great Scandal of the Greeks and Russians, who to this day plunge into the Water those they baptize, and deny any one to be rightly baptized, who is not plunged into the Water, according to the Precept of Christ, as we find in Sylvester Squropulus.