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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.
4. There is yet one Proof further to make it yet clearer, that Baptism is dipping or plunging, and nothing else, and that is taken from those Typical Baptisms spoken of in the holy Scripture.
(1.) That of the Red Sea, wherein the Fathers were buried as it were unto Moses in the Sea, and under the Cloud. See Pool's Annotations on the Place.
Others, says he, (more properly) think the Apostle uses this Term in regard of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism (as it was used) the Person going down into the Waters, and being dipped in them, and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great Receptacle of Water; tho the Water at that time was gathered on heaps on the other side of them, yet they seemed buried in the Water, as Persons seemed buried in the Water were in that Age when they were baptized.
Others, says he, (more properly) think the Apostle uses this Term in regard of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism (as it was used) the Person going down into the Waters, and being dipped in them, and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great Receptable of Water; tho the Water at that time was gathered on heaps on the other side of them, yet they seemed buried in the Water, as Persons seem'd buried in the Water were in that Age when they were baptized.