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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.
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.
Dr. Taylor saith, The Custom of the Ancient Church was not Sprinkling, but Immersion, in pursuance of the ⟨p. 14⟩Sense of the word Baptizing, and the Commandment and Example of our blessed Saviour.
Dr. Taylor saith, The Custom of the Antient Church was not Sprinkling, but Immersion, in pursuance of the ⟨p. 14⟩