A47591:303
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.
And let all thinking and serious Christians carefully consider, since this sacred Ordinance was appointed to be thus significant, as this and other Learned Men observe, what a sad and lamentable thing it is, that the true Baptism should be changed from dipping into sprinkling, which neither doth nor can hold forth these great Mysteries, for which purpose our Saviour ordained it: For 'tis evident Rantism or Sprinkling doth not bear any Proportion to these Mysteries, nor can they be signified thereby. What Figure of a Burial of Christ, or of the old Man is there in sprinkling a few drops of Water on a Person's Face? Or what Representation is there in that Act of a Resurrection? O, how is Christ's holy Baptism abused by this devised Rantism, and the Signification thereof destroyed! the Lord open your Eyes, or the Eyes of my godly and impartial Reader. This shows you clearly what Christ's true Baptism is, as also the true Subject. But to proceed.
And let all thinking and serious Christians carefully consider, since this sacred Ordinance was appointed to be thus significant, as this and other Learned Men observe, what a sad and lamentable thing it is, that the true Baptism should be changed from dipping into sprinkling, which neither doth nor can hold forth these great Mysteries, for which purpose our Saviour ordained it: For 'tis evident Rantism or Sprinkling doth not bear any Proportion to these Mysteries, nor can they be signified thereby. What Figure of a Burial of Christ, or of the old Man is there in sprinkling a few drops of VVater on a Person's Face? Or what Representation is there in that Act of a Resurrection? O, how is Christ's holy Baptism abused by this devised Rantism, and the Signification thereof destroyed! the Lord open your Eyes, or the Eyes of my godly and impartial Reader. This shews you clearly what Christ's true Baptism is, as also the true Subject. But to proceed.
St. Ambrose saith, Water is that wherein the Body is plunged, to wash away all Sins; there all Sins, saith he, are buried. We suppose he means 'tis a Sign of this, i. e. that all Sin is buried.
St. Ambrose saith, VVater is that wherein the Body is plunged, to wash away all Sins; there all Sins, saith he, are buried. We suppose he means 'tis a Sign of this, i. e. that all Sin is buried.