A47591:937
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.
Take his Words again on Levit. 11. 32. All that are unclean, whether Men or Vessels, are not cleansed but by dipping or baptizing in Water; and wheresoever the Law speaketh of washing a Man's Flesh, or washing of Clothes for Uncleanness, it is by dipping the whole Body therein: and whether they be Men or Vessels, there may not be any thing between them and the Water, to keep them asunder, as Clay, Pitch, or the like, that cleaveth to the Body or Vessel; if there be, then they are, saith he, unclean, and their washing profiteth them not. Maim Mikvaoth, chap. 1. § 12, 21.
Take heed what you affirm for the future: This Man, you and all know, was well acquainted with Jewish Rites and Ceremonies; and what can be a more full Confutation of what you affirm of Jewish Washings or Baptisms? But where we read of sprinkling of Blood and Water, 'tis not baptizing, unless baptizing and rantizing be both one and the same Word, and Thing, which we utterly deny.
3. What tho the People were washed, even all the whole Congregation, Was not that a Typical Church, and did it not typify that all true Believers must be washed in the Blood of Christ in Justification, and also washed by the Holy Spirit in Sanctification? These Things were held forth thereby, and not Baptism. You would make one thing that is a Figure or Shadow, a Type of another thing that is also it self but a Shadow or Figure; for Baptism signifies Christ's Death, Burial, and Resurrection, and our Death unto Sin, and Vilification to a new Life. But those Types were Shadows of good things to come, even of Christ, he was the Substance of them all; they must I say prefigure a Substance, not a Shadow.
3. What tho the People were washed, even all the whole Congregation, Was not that a Typical Church, and did it not typify that all true Believers must be washed in the Blood of Christ in Justification, and also washed by the Holy Spirit in Sanctification? These Things were held forth thereby, and not Baptism. You would make one thing that is a Figure or Shadow, a Type of another thing that is also it self but a Shadow or Figure; for Baptism signifies Christ's Death, Burial, and Resurrection, and our Death unto Sin, and Viification to a new Life. But those Types were Shadows of good things to come, even of Christ, he was the Substance of them all; they must I say prefigure a Substance, not a Shadow.