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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.
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.
What you say, that none plant Bodies in Water by baptizing them, seems strange, and not the words of a learned Man; because dipping is a Figure of planting us into Christ spiritually, and of Christ's Death and Resurrection, must the Body of a Man be a Tree? None graft Bodies into a Vine, yet the grafting of a Person into Christ is represented by that Allusion, or Metaphorical Expression: Must the Sign and the Thing signified be all one and the same thing?