A47591:922
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.
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 ⟨p. 165⟩were, as it were, buried in the Sea, and under the Cloud; and so it represents Immersion or Dipping, which is Christ's true Baptism. We are buried (not sprinkled) with Christ in Baptism, both in the Sign and also in Signification; to show he was dead, buried, and rose again for us, and that we are dead to Sin and ought to walk in Newness of Life.
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 compleated 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