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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.
Moreover Chrysostom saith, that the Old Man is buried and drowned in the Immersion under Water; and when the baptized Person is afterwards raised up out of the Water, it represents the Resurrection of the New Man to Newness of Life; and therefore concludes the contrary Custom, being not only against Ecclesiastical Law, but against the Analogy and Mystical Signification of the Sacrament, is not to be complied with.
Moreover Chrysostom saith, that the Old Man is buried and drown'd in the Immersion under Water; and when the baptized Person is afterwards raised up out of the Water, it represents the Resurrection of the New Man to Newness of Life; and therefore concludes the contrary Custom, being not only against Ecclesiastical Law, but against the Analogy and Mystical Signification of the Sacrament, is not to be complied with.
It has been too long, as I have formerly noted, God grant Men more Light to see their Error, and abhor to do so any more.
Kecker says, That Immersion, not Aspersion, was the first Institution of Baptism, as it doth, saith he, plainly appear from Rom. 6. 3. And say I, Where hath Christ since the first Institution, instituted Aspersion, or Sprinkling in the stead or room of Immersion or Dipping; or given Orders to change that significant Sign into the insignificant Foppery of Sprinkling? Ought not we to keep the Ordinances as they were first instituted and given to the Saints? Is not God's Word to be our Rule in all Points of Faith and Practice to the End of the World? Has Christ given any Men or Church a Dispensation to change his Laws ⟨p. 32⟩and Ordinances, or make them void by these Traditions, or set up their Post by his Post?