Because Baptists have suffered at the hands of Papists and Pedobaptistic Protestants alike …

Appendix B Ten Affirmations Concerning Our Baptist Heritage  NUMBER 8 OF 10

By James R. Beller   … ” Page 262, The Collegiate Baptist History Workbook”, by James R. Beller. http://www.prairiefirepress.com/collegiate-baptist-history-workbook.html?SID=6f97b8d1e79f068b27e15a58a7e39ffc

“Because Baptists have suffered at the hands of Papists and Pedobaptistic Protestants alike, we ought to venerate and remember our historic testimony far above the testimony of persecuting enemies.  That is, we ought to revere the testimony of the Paulicians, Peter de Bruys, Henry of Clugny, Balthasar Hubmaier, Henry D’anvers, John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes, Valentine Wightman, Isaac Backus, Shubal Stearns, Samuel Harris, John Leland, John Taylor, Isaac McCoy, et. al. These names should be more commonly known among Baptist than those of D.L Moody, Ira Sankey, R.A. Torey, Sam Jones, Gipsy Smith, John Wilbur Chapman or Billy Sunday.”

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