“Immersion was in common use among Baptists before 1641.”

Appendix B Ten Affirmations Concerning Our Baptist Heritage  NUMBER 6 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

“Immersion was in common use among Baptists before 1641.  We reject the 1641 theory of William Whitsitt and oppose the conclusions of Henry Veddar about baptism.  We view as suspect the modern histories of Robert Baker, Leon McBeth, Walter Shurden, Robert G. Torbet, and James Edward McGoldrick as they submit to the thoroughly disproved theory of William Whitsitt.”

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