Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives What are the Teachings of Ecclesiastical History Catholics & Protestants Developed False Ecclesiastical System PART EIGHT

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November 19, 2020
Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives
What are the Teachings of Ecclesiastical History
Catholics & Protestants Developed False Ecclesiastical System
PART EIGHT

J. Newton Brown, of Philadelphia, for many years editorial secretary of the American Baptist Publishing Society, in an historical essay, says of the policy of the Baptists, with respect to the Catholics and all corrupt churches: “They held that the Catholics had so departed from the original constitution of the church, in this respect, as to have forfeited their claim to that honor; and hence invariably baptized all who joined them from the Catholic churches. Hence, they are the first in history who are called Anabaptists, that is, rebaptizers; although, of course, they denied the propriety of the appellation, as they believed the baptism administered by a corrupt church to be null and void.”

So we say today, and, therefore, should no more invite the ministers of corrupt “churches”—human societies—into our pulpits to preach for us, than we would papistical ministers.

The Donatists baptized all persons coming from other professing [Christian] communities. This conduct Augustine [Catholic] disapproved, and observes: “You [Donatists] say they are baptized in an impure church, by heretics” (Orchard’s History, p. 95).

These authorities indicate the faith and practice of the Baptists for the first ten centuries. In the year 1120, we find a “Treatise Concerning Antichrist,” etc., among the writings of the Waldenses.

In defining Antichrist, they say: “It is not any particular person ordained to any degree, or office, or ministry, ‘but a system of falsehood,’ [as a false ‘church,’ or ecclesiastical system, etc.], opposing itself to the truth, covering itself with a show of beauty and piety, yet very unsuitable to the church of Christ, as by names and offices, the Scriptures and the sacraments, and various other things may appear. The system of iniquity thus completed with its ministers, great and small, [as we now find in the Romish, Episcopal, and Methodist societies], supported by those who are induced to follow it with an evil heart and blindfold—this is the congregation, which, taken together, composes what is called ‘Antichrist or Babylon,’ etc.

Presented by Thomas E. Kresal from excerpts: Graves, James R.. Old Landmarkism: What is it? . First Vision Publishers. Kindle Edition.

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