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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.
(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.
(2.) The second Typical Baptism was that of Noah's Ark: See Sir Norton Knatchbull, whom I quoted before, saith he, Noah's Ark and Baptism were both a Type and Figure of the Resurrection, not a Sign of the washing away of Sin, tho so taken metonymically, but a particular Signal of the Resurrection of Christ. Of this again, saith he, is Baptism a lively and emphatical Figure, as also was the Ark of Noah, out of which he returned, as from a Sepulchre. From hence I infer this Argument following.