David,

You quoted Spurgeon as saying,  "Persecuted alike by Romanists and 
Protestants of almost every sect,..."

Who were the Protestants that persecuted Baptists, and why?

I have experienced a definite prejudice against Baptists by people from the 
"high churches." in my community.

Some accuse us of being too evangelistic.

One Methodist woman recently told me that she resented how Baptists thought 
they were better than everyone else in that Baptists based all of their 
beliefs on the Scriptures and implied that other church groups did not..

Have you experienced ant-Baptist bias in the area where you live?

Jerry L




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pastor David Warner" <dwarner@...>
To: <dwarner@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:10 PM
Subject: [PastorsForum] The original Christians


>  "We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not
> commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther
> and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were
> never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. 
> We
> have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes
> veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel under ground for a
> little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike
> by Romanists and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never
> existed a Government holding Baptist principles which persecuted others;
> nor, I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be right to put the
> consciences of others under the control of man..."-Charles H. Spurgeon
>
>
> "If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this
> country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth
> be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and
> received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the
> evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and
> licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt
> throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule,
> degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without
> mitigation or end."-Daniel Webster
>
>
> David Warner
>
> We shall not adjust our Bibles to the age; but before we have done with 
> it,
> we shall adjust the age to the Bible
>                     Charles H. Spurgeon
>
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