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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.
2dly. But to proceed; Mark 1. 9. 'tis said Jesus was baptized of John in Jordan. Now saith a Learned Man on the place, It had been Nonsense for St. Mark to say, that Jesus was baptized in Jordan, if he had been sprinkled, because the Greek reads it [Greek or Hebrew], into Jordan: Could Jesus be said to be sprinkled into the River Jordan? 'tis proper to say he was dipped into Jordan, and that is and was the Act, and nothing else be sure.
2dly. But to proceed; Mark 1. 9. 'tis said Jesus was baptized of John in Jordan. Now saith a Learned Man on the place, It had been Nonsense for St. Mark to say, that Jesus was baptized in Jordan, if he had been sprinkled, because the Greek reads it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, into Jordan: Could Jesus be said to be sprinkled into the River Jordan? 'tis proper to say he was dipped into Jordan, and that is and was the Act, and nothing else besure.
3dly. They went down both into the Water, both Philip and the Eunuch, Acts 8. What need had there been for them so to have done, had Baptism been sprinkling? Sure Philip would not have put that Noble Person (who was a Man of great Authority under Candace Queen of the Ethiopians) to that great trouble to come out of his Chariot, (if to sprinkle a little Water on his Face might have done) and to go down into the Water and dip him: Sure Philip would on this occasion have dispensed with Immersion, and let Aspersion or Rantism have served, considering he was a great Person, and on a journey; he might have fetched a little Water in his Hand or otherwise, and have sprinkled ⟨p. 19⟩him in his Chariot, as some Ministers do now in their public Places of Worship; and thus Men make void the Command of Christ by their Traditions to the abuse of Christian Baptism, and Reproach of us that keep to his sacred Institution.