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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.
And from hence, say I, we know not Infants Rantism or Sprinkling, for this is none of Christ's true Baptism. Christ's Baptism is but one, and 'tis that of Believers, and 'tis not sprinkling but dipping, to signify Christ's Burial and Resurrection. He goes on and cites other Authors.
Hear Paul exclaiming, They past through the Sea, and were all baptized in the Cloud and in the Sea. He calls Baptism the Passage of the Sea, for it was a flight of Death caused by Water. To be baptized, and so plunged, and to return up and rise out of the Water, is a Symbol of the Descent into the Grave, and returning from thence. Baptism is a Pledge and Representation of the Resurrection: Baptism is an Earnest of the Resurrection: Immersion is a Representation of Death and Burial. Innumerable are the Testimonies (saith Sir Norton) which might be added, but these I think sufficient to prove, that Baptism is an Image of the Death and Resurrection of Christ (from whence we acknowledge the Mystery of our Religion, saith he, Christ's Deity and Humanity) and of the Faithful, who are baptized in his Faith, from Death in Sin to Newness of Life, which if they lead in this World, they have a most assured Hope, that being dead, they shall hereafter rise to Glory with Christ.
Hear Paul exclaiming, They past through the Sea, and were all baptized in the Cloud and in the Sea. He calls Baptism the Passage of the Sea, for it was a flight of Death caused by Water. To be baptized, and so plunged, and to return up and rise out of the Water, is a Symbol of the Descent into the Grave, and returning from thence. Baptism is a Pledg and Representation of the Resurrection: Baptism is an Earnest of the Resurrection: Immersion is a Representation of Death and Burial. Innumerable are the Testimonies (saith Sir Norton) which might be added, but these I think sufficient to prove, that Baptism is an Image of the Death and Resurrection of Christ (from whence we acknowledg the Mystery of our Religion, saith he, Christ's Deity and Humanity) and of the Faithful, who are baptized in his Faith, from Death in Sin to Newness of Life, which if they lead in this World, they have a most assured Hope, that being dead, they shall hereafter rise to Glory with Christ.