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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.
Dr. Cave saith, that the Party baptized was wholly immerged, or put under the Water, which was the almost constant and universal Custom of those Times, whereby they did most notably and significantly express the great Ends and Effects of Baptism: For as in immerging there are in a manner three several Acts; the putting the Person into the Water, his abiding under the Water, and his rising up again, thereby representing Christ's Death, Burial, and Resurrection, and in our Conformity thereunto, our dying to Sin, the Destruction of its Power, and our Resurrection to a new course of Life; So by the Person's being put into the Water, was lively represented the putting off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh, &c. by his being under it (which is a kind of Burial into the Water) his entering into a State ⟨p. 33⟩of Death or Mortification, like as Christ remained for sometime under the State or Power of Death: therefore 'tis said, As many as are baptized into Christ, are baptized into his Death, &c. And then by Immersion, or rising up out of the Water, is signified his entering upon a new course of Life; that like as Christ was raised up by the Glory of the Father, so we should walk in Newness of Life. Thus Dr. Cave.
Dr. Cave saith, that the Party baptized was wholly immerged, or put under the VVater, which was the almost constant and universal Custom of those Times, whereby they did most notably and significantly express the great Ends and Effects of Baptism: For as in immerging there are in a manner three several Acts; the putting the Person into the VVater, his abiuing under the VVater, and his rising up again, thereby representing Christ's Death, Burial, and Resurrection, and in our Conformity thereupto, our dying to Sin, the Destruction of its Power, and our Resurrection to a new course of Life; So by the Person's being put into the Water, was lively represented the putting off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh, &c. by his being under it (which is a kind of Burial into the Water) his entering into a State ⟨p. 33⟩of Death or Mortification, like as Christ remained for sometime under the State or Power of Death: therefore 'tis said, As many as are baptized into Christ, are baptized into his Death, &c. And then by Immersion, or rising up out of the Water, is signified his entering upon a new course of Life; that like as Christ was raised up by the Glory of the Father, so we should walk in Newness of Life. Thus Dr. Cave.