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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.
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.
Therefore let the Reader consider well what our Annotators speak on this Place; see Mr. Pool's Annotations on […] Cor. 10. 2, 3. Others, saith he, more probably think that the Apostle useth this Term, in regard of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism, (as it was then used) the Persons baptized going down into the Waters, and being dipped in them, and the Israelites going down into the Sea, that great Receptacle of Water; though the Water at that time was gathered on Heaps on either side of them, yet they seemed buried in the Water, as Persons in that Age were when baptized. Thus spake your Brethren who completed Mr. Pool's Annotations. They tell you in what Sense the Fathers were said to be baptized unto Moses, in the Sea, and under the Cloud. Here is nothing of sprinkling, pouring, or raining on them; but they