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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.
Sir, in both places it intends but some. You worthy and beloved Britons, take heed how you are led by a Man that argues so preposterously; I doubt not but he may be a good Man, but under a Cloud of Darkness.
Sir, in both places it intends but some. You worthy and beloved Britains, take heed how you are led by a Man that argues so preposterously; I doubt not but he may be a good Man, but under a Cloud of Darkness.
3. Sir, how Dr. Lightfoot or you can prove, that John preached but two Years and a half, I see not; but had he every day baptized an hundred, he might with much Ease have done it in the space of four hours time, or thereabouts: But alas! neither he nor our Saviour had so many Disciples as you imagine; the Number of the Disciples after the Resurrection of Christ, as we read, Acts 1. were but an hundred and twenty that were together, perhaps there might be some few more in some other parts.
4. But you, I perceive, contradict the Holy Ghost in saying, that John sprinkled them, i. e. rantized them; for Ran•izing in the Original (as I presume you know) is sprinkling in English. Sir, I appeal to your Conscience, whether it be not so: Sprinkling and pouring is one thing, and baptizing another, and a quite different Act. I affirm Sprinkling is not Baptizing, say what you will.