A47591:252
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.
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.
That it is uncertain, whether in the New Testament, the Apostles baptized by dipping or sprinkling, is not true, it being evident it was by dipping and no other way. For where-ever the word Baptism is used (I say again) in the New Testament, as it refers to Christ's Ordinance of Baptism, ⟨p. 21⟩it signifies dipping or plunging into the Water; nor can he prove the Jews washed their Hands and Cups only by pouring Water on them: tho Elijah might have Water poured on his Hand, we commonly wash our Hands and Cups by dipping them into the Water. And so did the Jews as Mr. Ainsworth affirms.
2dly. Sir, what you say concerning that Typical Baptism in the Cloud and Sea, you have heard also fully answered, and that makes not for sprinkling nor pouring. But more to that hereafter.