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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.
Therefore, Sir, that Baptism is any thing else than dipping, plunging or washing, which is done by dipping, we do utterly deny: For as the cutting off a little bit of the Foreskin of the Flesh, or not the twentieth part round, is not Circumcision; so sprinkling a little Water on the Face is not Baptism.
True, you call it Baptism, and will do so, tho 'tis nothing less nor more than Rantism, 'tis, not the Thing, nor does it answer in Signification. I may tell you again, that the Jews instead of circumcising the Foreskin of their Children's Flesh, might have as well presumed to dispense with that, and only have paired off the Nails of the Fingers of their Male Infants, and have called that Circumcision, as you may call sprinkling or pouring a little Water, Baptism. But may be you'll say, in Circumcision they we•• to draw Blood, so say I, they might in cutting the Nails ⟨p. 40⟩of their Children's Fingers; nay, and they might better plead, that the Things signified in Circumcision, might be as well answered in that new Device (the Nails being a sort of Excrement they might say signified the taking away the Filth of Sin, or Corruption of Nature) as the great Mysteries signified by Baptism or Dipping, can be represented by sprinkling or pouring.
True, you call it Baptism, and will do so, tho 'tis nothing less nor more than Rantism, 'tis, not the Thing, nor does it answer in Signification. I may tell you again, that the Jews instead of circumcising the Foreskin of their Childrens Flesh, might have as well presumed to dispense with that, and only have paired off the Nails of the Fingers of their Male Infants, and have called that Circumcision, as you may call sprinkling or pouring a little Water, Baptism. But may be you'l say, in Circumcision they we•• to draw Blood, so say I, they might in cutting the Nails ⟨p. 40⟩of their Childrens Fingers; nay, and they might better plead, that the Things signified in Circumcision, might be as well answered in that new Device (the Nails being a sort of Excrement they might say signified the taking away the Filth of Sin, or Corruption of Nature) as the great Mysteries signified by Baptism or Dipping, can be represented by sprinkling or pouring.