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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, what is become of your sprinkling of Cups, Pots and Brazen Vessels among the Jews, when 'tis said they washed or baptized them? it appears their way in washing was total dipping, or else they were not clean. And now to proceed to prove Christ's Baptism in Water is by Immersion, by Dipping, to represent in Sign his Death, Burial and Resurrection, and in Signification to hold forth our Death unto Sin and rising again to walk in Newness of Life who are baptized, I shall add it in this place,
First, From the Scripture.
Secondly, By the Consent; Agreement and Arguments of a Cloud of Witnesses, both Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines, and worthy Protestant Writers.
Secondly, By the Consent; Agreement and Arguments of a Cloud of Witnesses, both Antient Fathers and Modern Divines, and worthy Protestant Writers.
1. The first Scripture is, Rom. 6. 3, 4, 5, 6. Therefore we are buried with him in Baptism, &c. The Saints or whole Church of the Romans were to reckon themselves dead to Sin, and bound to live no longer therein, and that because by Baptism (as in a lively Figure) they held forth the same thing; so that it appears Baptism hath a twofold Signification.