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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 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.
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. Antiently, 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.
1. 'Tis a hard case, you neither will believe the holy Scripture, the Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines, nor other learned Prelates of the Church of England, who are yet living; but, contrary to the nature and tendency of holy Baptism, plead for Sprinkling and condemn Dipping, and cast Reproach upon it, and say also, that the Thing signified thereby, is the pouring forth of Christ's Blood, or the sprinkling and pouring out of the holy Spirit, notwithstanding we prove from the Scripture, and with the Testimony of all these great Men, that Baptism signifies the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and not any of those things you affirm as your own Conceit, without the Testimony of any learned or approved Author.