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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.
and as Circumcision figures Baptism, so also the Adjuncts of the circumcised shall signify something spiritual in the Adherents of Baptism: and therefore as Infants were circumcised, so spiritual Infants should be baptized, which is spiritual Circumcision; for therefore Babes had the Ministry of the Type, to signify that we must, when we give our Names to Christ, become Children in Malice, and then the Type is made complete.
and as Circumcision figures Baptism, so also the Adjuncts of the circumcised shall signify something spiritual in the Adherents of Baptism: and therefore as Infants were circumcised, so spiritual Infants should be baptized, which is spiritual Circumcision; for therefore Babes had the Ministry of the Type, to signify that we must, when we give our Names to Christ, become Children in Malice, and then the Type is made compleat.
Thus, as I have formerly said, the worthy Doctor hath given you a full Answer to all you have said concerning your Arguments for Baptism coming in the room of, or being a Figure of Circumcision. But to proceed.
5. If Baptism and Circumcision were both in full force together for some time, then Baptism is not the Antitype of, nor came in the room of Circumcision.