Greetings from the TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE...

Here is a little Baptist history,

any comments?

Really, good or bad I am wanting to cover all bases. Not to debate, just
looking for reponses. From those who are Baptist and those who are
not.

Does anyone have other information concerning HIS Story.



Thanks,

Jeff

Here are some statements from non-Baptists concerning the history of
the Baptist Church:

Catholic Cardinal Hosius, the president of the Council of Trent, 1554
A.D., “If the truth of religion were to be judged by the readiness and
boldness of which a man of any sect shows in suffering, then the
opinion and persuasion of no sect can be truer and surer than that of
the Anabaptists, since there have been none for these twelve hundred
years past that have been more generally punished, or that have more
cheerfully and steadfastly undergone, and even offered themselves to
the most cruel punishment than these people.” {quoted from:
CHRISTIAN’S HISTORY.}

Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, co-worker with Luther and Calvin in the
Reformation of 1525 and bitter enemy of the Baptist says, “The
institution of the Anabaptists is no novelty, but for thirteen hundred
years has caused great trouble to the church.” Note: This admits the
existence of Baptists in the year 225 A.D.

Mosheim, Lutheran historian, says, “Before the rise of Luther and
Calvin, there lay secreted in almost all the countries of Europe persons
who adhered tenaciously to the principles of the modern Dutch
Baptists.” {INST. OF ECCL. HISTORY}

Robert Barclay, Quaker, says, “There are also reasons for believing
that on the continent of Europe small hidden Christian societies, who
have held many of the opinions of the Anabaptists, have existed from
the time of the Apostles.” {INNER LIFE OF THE SOCIETIES OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, pp. 11, 12}

John Clark Ridpath, Methodist, author of that monumental work,
“RIDPATH’ S HISTORY OF THE WORLD,” in a letter to Dr. W. A.
Jarrell {BAPTIST CHURCH PERPETUITY, pg. 59}, says, “I should not
readily admit that there was a Baptist Church as far back as A.D. 100,
though without doubt there were Baptists then, as all Christians were
then Baptists.”

Alexander Campbell, founder of the Campbellite or “Christian” church
or the “church of Christ,” and “Disciples of Christ,” says, “From the
apostolic age to the present time, the sentiments of Baptists have had a
continued chain of advocates, and public monuments of their existence
in every century can be produced.” {McCalla - Campbell Debate on
Baptism, pp. 378, 379}

Sir Isaac Newton, learned English philosopher, student of the
Scriptures and of history, says, “The modern Baptists formerly called
Anabaptists, are the only people who have never symbolized with the
Papacy.” {quoted from: BAPTIST LAW OF CONTINUITY, pg. 39}

Edinburg Cyclopedia: “It must have already occurred to our readers that
the Baptists are the same sect of Christians that were formerly
described under the appellation of Anabaptists. Indeed, this seems to
have been their leading principle from the time of Tertullian to the
present time." {From: N.T. CHURCH, pg. 22}  Note: Tertullian was a
Montanist. He was born about fifty years after the death of John the
apostle.

“CROSSING THE CENTURIES” by W.C. King, having as associate
editors some of the great men of America, such as former President
Roosevelt, President Wilson, David Starr Jordan, Lyman Abbott, and a
number of presidents and professors of leading universities.  Of the
Baptists it has this to say, “Of the Baptists it may be said that they are
not reformers. These people, comprising bodies of Christian Believers,
known under various names in different countries, are entirely distinct
and independent of the Roman and Greek churches, have an unbroken
continuity from apostolic days down through the centuries. Throughout
this long period they were bitterly persecuted for heresy, driven from
country to country, disfranchised, deprived of their property,
imprisoned, tortured, and slain by the thousands, yet they swerved not
from their New Testament faith, doctrine and adherence." {From: THE
NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH}
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Pastor Jeff Hallmark   SPRUCELAND BAPTIST CHURCH
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