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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. 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, Rom. 6. 3, 4. Col. 2. 12, 13. by and by; but if my honest Country-men do think you have given a better Sense of the Words than all those Learned Men, I will say no more.
You say, the Resemblance then between Baptism doth not stand in the dipping of the Body so much as in the End of the Ordinance, in making us Partakers of Christ's Death, of his Life, and of his Ascension, and of his sitting on the Right hand of God. Baptism makes us to be planted together in the Likeness of his Death; yet there are none, you say, that plants Bodies in Water by baptizing them, Rom. 6. 5.