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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.
3dly. What you say concerning the Signification of Baptism, that it holds forth two things, 1. The Blood of Christ; 2. The Spirit of Christ, is far fetched: for the Lord's Supper holds forth the Blood of Christ; and we have no Ordinance ordained by Christ to hold forth in a Figure the sprinkling or pouring forth of the Spirit; if Man has invented such a thing, so be it. The Papists found out seven Sacraments with their significant Signs, as they tell you, and they have the same Parity of Reason to maintain their Sacraments without any Warrant from God's Word, as our Pedobaptists have for their baptizing, or rather rantizing or sprinkling of Babes. True, the Apostle speaks of sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus, but Baptism is no Figure of that, as you have heard, but primarily of the Death, burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
3dly. What you say concerning the Signification of Baptism, that it holds forth two things, 1. The Blood of Christ; 2. The Spirit of Christ, is far fetch'd: for the Lord's Supper holds forth the Blood of Christ; and we have no Ordinance ordain'd by Christ to hold forth in a Figure the sprinkling or pouring forth of the Spirit; if Man has invented such a thing, so be it. The Papists found out seven Sacraments with their significant Signs, as they tell you, and they have the same Parity of Reason to maintain their Sacraments without any Warrant from God's Word, as our Pedobaptists have for their baptizing, or rather rantizing or sprinkling of Babes. True, the Apostle speaks of sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus, but Baptism is no Figure of that, as you have heard, but primarily of the Death, •urial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Sir, you say, Sprinkling is lawful, because it is very probable that the Apostles themselves did baptize by pouring or sprinkling Water. Acts 2. 41. Then they that gladly received the word, were baptized; and the same day there were added unto them three thousand Souls. It is not, you say, very probable that these three thousand were plunged over Head and Ears in Water; How could Peter, and the rest of the Apostles, even twelve Men, baptize three thousand in one day, yea in one half day? how could they change their Apparel? &c.