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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.
The Minor is undeniable: Was not Baptism in full force from the time that John received it from Heaven, and administered it on the People? And did not Christ by his Disciples baptize many Persons, nay more Disciples than John? as it is said John 4. 1, 2. and was not Circumcision then in full force too, and so abode till Christ took it away by nailing it with all other Jewish Rites to his Cross?
The Minor is undeniable: Was not Baptism in full force from the time that John received it from Heaven, and administred it on the People? And did not Christ by his Disciples baptize many Persons, nay more Disciples than John? as it is said John 4. 1, 2. and was not Circumcision then in full force too, and so abode till Christ took it away by nailing it with all other Jewish Rites to his Cross?
And as to the Sequel of the Major, that cannot be denied: for if one thing cannot come in the room and place of another, till the other is actually and legally removed, and took out of the way, which is plain; then since these two Rites had a Being together, the Major is undeniable. A Type can abide no longer than till the Antitype is come, therefore Baptism is not the Antitype of Circumcision, or came not in the room and place thereof; the Antitype of which, or that which came in the room of the Circumcision of the Flesh, is the Circumcision of the Heart, not in the Flesh but in the Spirit, whose Praise is not of Men, but of God.
6. And indeed how one thing that was a Figure or Shadow should come in the room, or be the Antitype of another thing which is a Figure or Shadow, no wise Man can see Reason to believe. And thus your great Text,