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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. Fowler (now Lord Bishop of Gloucester) on Rom. 6. 3, 4. saith, Christians being plunged into the Water, signifies their undertaking and obliging themselves in a spiritual Sense, to be buried with Jesus Christ in an utter renouncing and forsaking all their Sins, that so answering to his Resurrection, they may live a holy and a godly Life. Design of Christianity, p. 90.
Dr. Fowler (now Lord Bishop of Glocester) on Rom. 6. 3, 4. saith, Christians being plunged into the Water, signifies their undertaking and obliging themselves in a spiritual Sense, to be buried with Jesus Christ in an utter renouncing and forsaking all their Sins, that so answering to his Resurrection, they may live a holy and a godly Life. Design of Christianity, p. 90.
Also Dr. Sherlock (Dean of St. Paul's) on Rom. 6. 3, 4. saith, Our Conformity to the Death and Resurrection of our Saviour consists in dying to Sin, and walking in Newness of Life: Which, saith he, St. Paul tells us, is represented by the external Ceremony of Baptism, and ⟨p. 39⟩rising out of his watery Grave, a new born Creature. Charity without Usury, p. 1.
And unto these, let me add what the Pious and Reverend Dr. Tillotson (late Archbishop of Canterbury) hath wrote; speaking of the same Text, Rom. 6. 3, 4. Anciently, saith he, those who were baptized put off their Garments, which signified their putting off the Body of Sin, and were immersed and buried in the Water, to represent the Death of Sin; and then did rise up again out of the Water to signify their Entrance upon a new Life. And to these Customs the Apostle alludes, when he says, How shall we that are dead to Sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his Death? &c.