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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.
Tilenus, a great Protestant Writer, speaks fully in this case: Baptism, saith he, is the first Sacrament of the New Testament instituted by Christ, in which there is an exact Analogy between the Sign and the Thing signified. The outward Rite in Baptism is threefold.
1. Immersion into the Water. 2. Aciding under the Water. 3. A Resurrection out of the Water.
The Form of Baptism, viz. External and Essential, is no other than an Analogical Proportion, which the Signs keep with the Thing signified thereby: For the Property of the Water washing away the Defilements of the Body, does in a most suitable Similitude, set forth the Efficacy of Christ's Blood in blotting out of Sin; so dipping into the Water, in a most lively Similitude sets forth the Mortification of the old Man, and rising out of the Water the Vivification of the new Man: The same plunging into the Water, saith he, holds forth to us that horrible Gulf of Divine Justice, in which Christ, for our sakes, for a while was in a manner swallowed up; abiding under the Water, (how little time soever) denotes his Descent into Hell, even the very deepest of Lifelessness, lying in the sealed or guarded Sepulchre, where he was accounted as one dead. Rising out of the Water, holds forth to us a lively Similitude of that Conquest which this dead Man got over Death. In like manner, saith he, 'tis therefore meet that we being baptized into his Death, and buried with him, should rise also with him, to go on in a new Life. Thus far
The Form of Baptism, viz. External and Essential, is no other than an Analogical Proportion, which the Signs keep with the Thing signified thereby: For the Property of the Water washing away the Defilements of the Body, does in a most sutable Similitude, set forth the Efficacy of Christ's Blood in blotting out of Sin; so dipping into the Water, in a most lively Similitude sets forth the Mortification of the old Man, and rising out of the Water the Vivification of the new Man: The same plunging into the Water, saith he, holds forth to us that horrible Gulph of Divine Justice, in which Christ, for our sakes, for a while was in a manner swallowed up; abiding under the Water, (how little time soever) denotes his Descent into Hell, even the very deepest of Lifelesness, lying in the sealed or guarded Sepulchre, where he was accounted as one dead. Rising out of the VVater, holds forth to us a lively Similitude of that Conquest which this dead Man got over Death. In like manner, saith he, 'tis therefore meet that we being baptized into his Death, and buried with him, should rise also with him, to go on in a new Life. Thus far