The Baptist Denomination; Its History, Doctrines, and Ordinances. Its History, Doctrines, and Ordinances (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. The argument for the primitive character of the Baptist church, from the history of the church, being brief sketches of history, showing the chain of connection from the earliest period of the Christian church until tho present time. 1. New Testament Baptists from A. D. 1 to 100. 2. Tho Montanists from 150 to 500. 3. The Novatians from 251 to 600. 4. Tho Donatists from 311 to 750. 5. The Paulicians from 653 to 1017. 6. Tho Paterines from 330 to 1250. 7. The Waldenses from 150 to 1523; Luther's appearance and the rise of evangelical Pcdobaptism. 8. Tho Anabaptists of Germany from 1524 to 1674. 9. The Baptists of England, Ac., from 100 to 1855. 10. The American Baptists from 1639 to 1855. 11. Other Baptist sects. An extensive, thorough, critical work upon this subject is a desideratum. Our limits and plan admit of only brief sketches of history, which, however, we trust may be sufficient to show that the light of the Baptist church has never entirely gone out since it first appeared, when, in -those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea. We do not profess to find a succession of Baptist churches, that is to say, one church terminating in another indefinitely. Baptist churches are independent of each other, and may exist without each other's knowledge. But we do find them in being in all ages, the periods, so to speak, lapping over each other. If they have sometimes died out in one place, it has not been until others have sprung up, so that no period of the world, since the introduction of Christianity, has been without them. BRIEF SKETCHES OF BAPTISTS, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE PRESENT TIME. 1. New Testament Baptists?from A. D. 1 to 100. We have seen that in New Testament times, that is, the first cen...