A47591:283
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.
You bring in our Objection against your Sprinkling taken from Rom. 6. 3, 4. Col. 2. 12, 13. viz. we are said to be buried with Christ in Baptism into Death. To this you say, We bury by casting Earth on the Body, and the pouring of Water, you say, doth represent it; it cannot be said one was buried that was fallen under Water or Earth, unless he remains there for a time: he that descendeth into a Coal-pit is under the Earth, but is not buried by reason he cometh out from thence immediately; dipping therefore doth not signify a Burial, unless he that is dipped remains for a time under the Water.
I answer; 'Tis true, we do bury by casting Earth on the dead Body, but 'tis so much Earth as covers the Corps all over, or else 'tis not buried. So if you pour Water on a Child until it is covered all over in Water, it may truly be said that Child was buried in the Water, although the burying in Baptism is not by pouring Water in great abundance until it is covered, but by going into the Water and there to be dipped, or plunged all over, so that all may see the Body is buried under Water, as truly, symbolically, and as properly as if it had been buried in the Water. Or,
I answer; 'Tis true, we do bury by casting Earth on the dead Body, but 'tis so much Earth as covers the Corps all over, or else 'tis not buried. So if you pour Water on a Child until it is covered all over in Water, it may truly be said that Child was buried in the Water, altho the burying in Baptism is not by pouring Water in great abundance until it is covered, but by going into the Water and there to be dipped, or plunged all over, so that all may see the Body is buried under Water, as truly, symbolically, and as properly as if it had been buried in the Water. Or,