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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.
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.
(1.) There is in it, when truly and rightly administered, not only a Representation of Christ's Burial and Resurrection, but,
(1.) There is in it, when truly and rightly administred, not only a Representation of Christ's Burial and Resurrection, but,
(2.) Also it signifies our Death unto Sin, and our rising again to walk in Newness of Life; and indeed the Apostle makes use of this as an Argument to press Newness of Life (the thing signified in Baptism) upon them all, as if he should say, As many of us as are baptized must know this, that we are baptized into Christ's Death, and therefore must die to Sin and live a new Life: But we have all been baptized, or buried with him in Baptism, therefore must all of us die to Sin and live a new Life.