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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.
2. But whereas you say you have proved, that some were in the Primitive Time baptized by pouring Water on them, we have showed your Proofs to be too short and invalid.
2. But whereas you say you have proved, that some were in the Primitive Time baptized by pouring Water on them, we have shewed your Proofs to be too short and invalid.
3. The way of the Administration of Christ's sacred Ordinance was but one and the same in all the Churches of the Saints; and if some were baptized by dipping, and others by sprinkling, or pouring Water upon them, then the Ordinance must have different Significations, which could not be answered on some Persons, unless […] they were both dipped and sprinkled, and had water poured upon them, which is preposterous to imagine: for such that were dipped or buried under the Water, were thereby made in Sign and Signification conformable to the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Christ, which we have so fully proved to be one great End of Baptism, that it cannot be den•ed; and such who were only sprinkled, they were ⟨p. 23⟩taught thereby the sprinkling of Christ's Blood, and of the Spirit, as you would have the Ordinance to signify, without any ground from God's Word.
3. The way of the Administration of Christ's sacred Ordinance was but one and the same in all the Churches of the Saints; and if some were baptized by dipping, and others by sprinkling, or pouring Water upon them, then the Ordinance must have different Significations, which could not be answered on some Persons, unless 〈…〉 they were both dipped and sprinkled, and had water poured upon them, which is preposterous to imagine: for such that were dipped or buried under the VVater, were thereby made in Sign and Signification conformable to the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Christ, which we have so fully proved to be one great End of Baptism, that it cannot be den•ed; and such who were only sprinkled, they were