A47591:603
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.
3. It may be understood as if Baptism did succeed in the place of Circumcision in respect of its Signification, which is true in some things, but not in others. First, both might signify the Sanctification of the Heart, and this is all may be concluded out of that place alleged, Col. 2. 11, 12. to which I think meet to add, that if that Text be looked into, the Apostle speaks not of Circumcision, but of Christ; because in him we are complete, and by whose Circumcision we are said to put off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh: nor doth the Text say we are circumcised, because we are baptized, but that we are complete in Christ, because we are circumcised in him, and buried with him in Baptism; in which, or in whom ye are also risen together, through the Faith of the Operation of God that raised him from the Dead.
3. It may be understood as if Baptism did succeed in the place of Circumcision in respect of its Signification, which is true in some things, but not in others. First, both might signify the Sanctification of the Heart, and this is all may be concluded out of that place alledged, Col. 2. 11, 12. to which I think meet to add, that if that Text be looked into, the Apostle speaks not of Circumcision, but of Christ; because in him we are compleat, and by whose Circumcision we are said to put off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh: nor doth the Text say we are circumcised, because we are baptized, but that we are compleat in Christ, because we are circumcised in him, and buried with him in Baptism; in which, or in whom ye are also risen together, through the Faith of the Operation of God that raised him from the Dead.
In some things Baptism doth not succeed in the place of Circumcision, in respect of Signification. For,