A47591:284
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.
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,
2. Tho a Person be laid in the Grave, and covered all over with Earth, tho it be but two Minutes, he may as truly and properly be said to be buried, as he that lies there three Days, or a thousand Years. But you would have Baptism to be no proper Representation of a Burial, unless the Person baptized lies so long till he be drowned. Sir, Baptism doth represent the Death of Christ, and ⟨p. 27⟩of the old Man, or Body of Sin, which is as sufficiently held forth by a Minute or two, as by many Days.
3. And now, utterly to put to silence your vain Objections, I shall give the Sense of a whole Cloud of Witnesses, as to the proper Exposition of those Texts,