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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.
5. We utterly deny that Baptism was ordained or instituted by Christ to signify either the pouring forth of his Blood, or the pouring forth of the holy Spirit, and must tell you, that you affirm what you please, without any Proof from God's Word. But by the way, let the Reader observe how you go from sprinkling to pouring Water on the Face of Infants. I question whether you ever do so or not; but if you should, that would be no more Christ's Baptism than sprinkling.
5. VVe utterly deny that Baptism was ordain'd or instituted by Christ to signify either the pouring forth of his Blood, or the pouring forth of the holy Spirit, and must tell you, that you affirm what you please, without any Proof from God's VVord. But by the way, let the Reader observe how you go from sprinkling to pouring VVater on the Face of Infants. I question whether you ever do so or not; but if you should, that would be no more Christ's Baptism than sprinkling.
You are not to devise new Signs or Symbols of Spiritual Mysteries, of which God speaks nothing in his Word, nor ever instituted to such Ends. I affirm he has appointed no Rite or Ordinance in the Gospel to represent the sprinkling or pouring forth of the holy Spirit. The Papists have (you know) seven Sacraments, and they tell us of the Use and End of them, and how wonderfully significant they are, and yet all the Use and Signification of them were the Contrivances of their own wicked Hearts: And I must tell you that they prove what they do and say for their Sacraments as well as you do. As to what you speak of pouring or sprinkling, take what Tho. Aquinas most excellently hath said on this account. It belongs to the Signifier (says he) to determine what Sign is to be used for the Signification: But God it is, who by things sensible, signifies spiritual things in the Sacrament.
You are not to devise new Signs or Symbols of Spiritual Mysteries, of which God speaks nothing in his VVord, nor ever instituted to such Ends. I affirm he has appointed no Rite or Ordinance in the Gospel to represent the sprinkling or pouring forth of the holy Spirit. The Papists have (you know) seven Sacraments, and they tell us of the Use and End of them, and how wonderfully significant they are, and yet all the Use and Signification of them were the Contrivances of their own wicked Hearts: And I must tell you that they prove what they do and say for their Sacraments as well as you do. As to what you speak of pouring or sprinkling, take what Tho. Aquinas most excellently hath said on this account. It belongs to the Signifier (says he) to determine what Sign is to be used for the Signification: But God it is, who by things sensible, signifies spiritual things in the Sacrament.