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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.
Against all these Testimonies and multitudes more of the best and most Learned Writers, Mr. Burkitt objects as follows, and you seem to argue after the same manner; these are his words, viz.
If Baptism administered by pouring Water on the Face (representing the whole Person) doth answer the Use and End of Baptism, as well as when administered by aipping or plunging, then dipping is not essentially and absolutely necessary in the Act of baptizing: but the one answereth the Use and End of baptizing as well as the other, therefore the one cannot be more essential than the other.
If Baptism administred by pouring Water on the Face (representing the whole Person) doth answer the Use and End of Baptism, as well as when administred by aipping or pl•nging, then dipping is not essentially and absolutely necessary in the Act of baptizing: but the one answereth the Use and End of baptizing as well as the other, therefore the one cannot be more essential than the other.
What is the End and Use of Baptism, but to represent to our Minds […] Effusion of Christ's Blood for to take away the Guilt of Sin, and the pouring forth of the Spirit for the purging away the Filth of it? Now (says he, and you to the same purpose) the sprinkling of the Blood of Christ, and the pouring forth of the holy Spirit upon the Infant, are more fully and plainly represented by Baptism as administered by sprinkling than by dipping. He says further, That if the inward and spiritual Grace signified by Baptism be more lively represented by sprinkling than by dipping, then surely sprinkling is not only lawful, but more expedient than dipping: but the inward and spiritual Grace signified by Baptism, to wit, the cleansing the Soul by the Grace and Spirit of Christ, is more lively represented by sprinkling than by dipping; therefore more expedient, and accordingly we find Almighty God himself often expressing the Mercy of Sanctification by this Action;