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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.
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.
You in the next place, mention that which we object concerning Philip and the Eunuch, who went both down into the Water when the Eunuch was baptized. To this you answer and say, How doth that follow? Could they not go into the Water without plunging in it? We read in Gen. 24. 45. (say you) that Rebecca went down into the Well, Does it follow that she was plunged in it? You ⟨p. 26⟩will say of your Maid-Servant, when she goes to draw Water, she went down into the River, your meaning is not that she was plunged there.