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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.
Piscator also saith, the ancient manner of baptizing was, that the whole Body was dipped into the Water.
Piscator also saith, the antient manner of baptizing was, that the whole Body was dipp'd into the Water.
So saith the Assembly in their Annotations.
Nay, say I, it had been a vain and needless thing for them to go to Rivers to baptize, if it had been only to sprinkle a little Water on the Face; for a Quart of Water might have served to have rantized a great number.
Nav, say I, it had been a vain and needless thing for them to go to Rivers to baptize, if it had been only to sprinkle a little Water on the Face; for a Quart of Water might have served to have rantized a great number.
And had Sprinkling or Rantizing been the Ordinance, there is no Reason left to conceive why they should go to Rivers; nor would the Spirit of God have given that as the Reason why John baptized in Enon near Salim, viz. because there was much Water,