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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.
Hence in a General Assembly therefore of all the Ministers that were convened, he did ask of a certain Minister (John ⟨p. 15⟩Frize by Name, who was sometimes Minister of Lubec) how the Sacrament of Baptism was administered at Lubec? who for his Piety and Candour, did answer, that Infants were baptized naked at Lubec, after the same fashion altogether as in Germany; but from whence and how that peculiar manner of baptizing had crept into Hamburg he was ignorant. At length they did agree among themselves that the Judgment of Luther and of the Divines at Wittenberg should be demanded about this Point; which thing being done, Luther wrote back to Hamburg, that the Sprinkling was an Abuse they ought to remove. Thus plunging was restored at Hamburg, yet is that Climate cooler than ours.
Hence in a General Assembly therefore of all the Ministers that were convened, he did ask of a certain Minister (John ⟨p. 15⟩Frize by Name, who was sometimes Minister of Lubec) how the Sacrament of Baptism was administred at Lubec? who for his Piety and Candor, did answer, that Infants were baptized naked at Lubec, after the same fashion altogether as in Germany; but from whence and how that peculiar manner of baptizing had crept into Hamburgh he was ignorant. At length they did agree among themselves that the Judgment of Luther and of the Divines at Wittenburg should be demanded about this Point; which thing being done, Luther wrote back to Hamburgh, that the Sprinkling was an Abuse they ought to remove. Thus plunging was restored at Hamburgh, yet is that Climate cooler than onrs.
Mr. Jos. Mede saith there was no such thing as Sprinkling or Rantism [mark!] used in Baptism in the Apostles days, nor many Ages after. He had spoken more properly if he had said, there was no Rantism used in the Apostles days, but Baptism, than to say no Rantism used in Baptism, since he well knew they are two distinct and different Acts: It cannot be Baptism at all, if it be only Rantism or Sprinkling, Immersion or Dipping being the very thing, not an Accident, as I hinted, but an Essential so absolutely necessary, that it cannot be the Act or Ordinance without it.