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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.
The last Author I shall quote is learned Zanchy, There are two Parts, saith he, in Regeneration, Mortification and Vilification; that is called a Burial with Christ, this (is called) a Resurrection with Christ. The Sacrament of both these is Baptism in which we are overwhelmed, or buried, and after that do come forth and rise again. It may not be said truly, but sacramentally of all that are baptized, that they are buried with Christ, and raised with him, but only of such as have true Faith.
The last Author I shall quote is learned Zanchy, There are two Parts, saith he, in Regeneration, Mortification and Vi•ification; that is called a Burial with Christ, this (is called) a Resurrection with Christ. The Sacrament of both these is Baptism in which we are overwhelmed, or buried, and after that do come forth and rise again. It may not be said truly, but sacramentally of all that are baptized, that they are buried with Christ, and raised with him, but only of such as have true Faith.
Now we may appeal to all the World, whether Zanchy and all the rest do not clearly and evidently testify the same thing that we assert, viz. That Baptism is and can be ⟨p. 42⟩no other Act than Immersion or Dipping, since Sprinkling, all must confess, doth not represent in a lively Figure, the Burial and Resurrection of Christ, nor our dying or being dead to Sin, and Vivification to Newness of Life, saith he, Sacramentally, i. e. Analogically, in respect of the near Resemblance between Baptism, and a Death and Resurrection.
And this, I say, cannot be said of them that are sprinkled only; for if, in respect of Mortification and Vivification, they may be denominated buried and raised with Christ, (which cannot be said of Infants) yet that outward Rite or Sign cannot denominate them so much as Sacramentally buried and raised with Christ: for there is not so much as any likeness of such things in it; but in true Baptism, viz. total dipping the Body in Water, and raising it again, there is a lively Figure held forth to our very sight. And as Zanchy saith, It cannot be said of all, nor indeed of any, that they are thus sacramentally dead, buried and risen with Christ, but only of such as have true Faith. Therefore Infants are excluded by his own Argument.