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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.
Arg. 3. If those Typical Baptisms spoken of in the Scriptures, signified Immersion, or an Overwhelming, or a Burial; then is Sprinkling no true Baptism: But those ⟨p. 44⟩Typical Baptisms, &c. did signify Immersion, or an Overwhelming, or a Burial; Therefore Sprinkling is no true Baptism.
Again, that Baptism is dipping or plunging, or a being buried in the Water, appears by those Metaphorical Baptisms we read of, which are twofold.
1st. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
2dly. The Baptism of Afflictions.
1st. Saith John the Baptist, I indeed baptize you with Water, but he shall baptize you with the holy Spirit and Fire. Now 'tis not the sanctifying Gifts of the Spirit which every Godly Person receives, that is the Baptism of the Spirit; but, as the Learned observe, the miraculous Effusions of the holy Spirit, like that at Pentecost,