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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.
Mr. Perkins saith, The dipping of the Body signifies Mortification, or Fellowship with Christ in his Death; the staying under the Water signifies the Burial of Sin, and coming out of the Water, the Resurrection from Sin to Newness of Life. In another Treatise of his, he saith, the ancient Custom of baptizing, was to dip, as it were to dive all the Body of the baptized in Water; Rom. 6. Council of Laodicea and Neocesarea.
Mr. Perkins saith, The dipping of the Body signifies Mortification, or Fellowship with Christ in his Death; the staying under the Water signifies the Burial of Sin, and coming out of the Water, the Resurrection from Sin to Newness of Life. In another Treatise of his, he saith, the antient Custom of baptizing, was to dip, as it were to dive all the Body of the baptized in Water; Rom. 6. Council of Laodicea and Neocesarea.
And here let me add what Reverend Dr. Sharp (the present Archbishop of York) hath lately delivered in a Sermon preached before the Queen's Majesty on Easter-day, March the 27th, 1692.
And this in ancient Times was taught every Christian (saith he) in and by his Baptism: Whenever a Person was baptized, he was not only to profess his Faith in Christ's Death and Resurrection, but he was also to look upon himself as obliged in Correspondence therewith, to mortify his former carnal Affections, and to enter upon a new State of Life. And the very form of Baptism (saith he) did lively represent this Obligation to them: For what did their being plunged under Water signify, but their undertaking in Imitation of Christ's Death and Burial, to forsake all their former evil Courses? as their ascending out of the Water did their Engagement to lead a holy, spiritual Life. This our Apostle doth more than once declare to us: thus