A47591:919
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.
Answer. Two Things are to be done to disprove what you say here.
1. That the Rain falling from the Cloud, was not that which was the Figure of Baptism. 2. That this Text doth not prove Infants to be the Subject of Baptism.
First, If Persons may be said to be baptized when it rains upon them, How many times have you and I been so baptized? Besides, Do you think it never rained upon the •ites before they passed through the Sea?
And Secondly, Prove if you can it did then either rain upon them from the Cloud, or that the Sea dropped upon them; 'tis but your own ungrounded Supposition.
Thirdly, Prove that Rain falling upon them, can in any Sense be called a Washing or Baptism.