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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.
Answ. This Argument supposeth Baptism to succeed in the room of Circumcision, which may be understood many ways.
1. So as that the sense be, that those Persons may be baptized, which heretofore by God's Appointment were to be circumcised, and in this sense the Argument must proceed, if it conclude to the purpose: but in this sense it is false, for Females were not circumcised, which yet were ⟨p. 93⟩baptized, as Acts 8. 12, 13, 14. & 16. 14, 15. and Believers out of Abraham's House, as Lot, Melchizedek, Joh, were not to be circumcised, but believing Gentiles are universally to be baptized.
1. So as that the sense be, that those Persons may be baptized, which heretofore by God's Appointment were to be circumcised, and in this sense the Argument must proceed, if it conclude to the purpose: but in this sense it is false, for Females were not circumcised, which yet were ⟨p. 93⟩baptized, as Acts 8. 12, 13, 14. & 16. 14, 15. and Believers out of Abraham's House, as Lot, Melchisedec, Joh, were not to be circumcised, but believing Gentiles are universally to be baptized.
2. It may be so understood as if the Rite of Baptism then began when the Rite of Circumcision did, or was to end: but this is not to be said; for John Baptist and Christ's Disciples baptized,