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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.
CHAP. V.
Proving that Baptism is plunging or burying in Water the whole Body, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Wherein Mr. Owen's Arguments for sprinkling, and his Objections against Immersion or Dipping, are fully answered.
Reader, thou mayst see that tho the remote Sense of the common word [Greek or Hebrew], may refer to pouring of Water, yet the proper and genuine Sense of that word is dipping, or such a washing as is by dipping, which is abundantly proved, as you have heard, both by the Scriptures and Consent of a great Cloud of Witnesses amongst the Learned, both Ant and Modern: Therefore what […]. […] saith in the beginning of his third Chapter, viz.
REader, thou mayst see that tho the remote Sense of the common word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, may refer to pouring of Water, yet the proper and genuine Sense of that word is dipping, or such a washing as is by dipping, which is abundantly proved, as you have heard, both by the Scriptures and Consent of a great Cloud of Witnesses amongst the Learned, both An•nt and Modern: Therefore what 〈…〉. 〈…〉 saith in the beginning of his third Chapter, viz.