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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.
3. Circumcision signified, that Moses his Law was to be observed, Gal. 5. 3. but Baptism doth signify, that Moses his Law is abolished, and the Doctrine of Christ established.
4. Circumcision signified the Promise of the Land of Canaan, but Baptism Eternal Life by Christ.
And indeed, saith he, if this Argument be not warily and restrainedly understood, an Egg is laid, out of which manifest Judaism may be hatched: but if it be taken restrainedly, it no more follows thence, but that Baptism and ⟨p. 94⟩Circumcision in some things hold forth the same, which is more plainly said of Noah's Ark, 1 Pet. 3. 21. and of the Red Sea and Cloud, 1 Cor. 10. 2. and yet we say not that Baptism succeeded in their place, much less do we infer any Rite to be instituted in their stead, respecting the same Persons; yea verily it is to be seriously thought on,