What are the Teachings of Ecclesiastical History PART SIX
Thomas E Kresal · November 17, 2020
Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives What are the Teachings of Ecclesiastical History PART SIX
Professor J. S. Reynolds, D.D., of the University of South Carolina, prepared, in 1848, an elaborate paper upon the practice of Baptists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the conclusion I copy. There was not a man in the South whose opinion was worthy of more consideration. “The conclusion is irresistible, that they did not consider even immersion valid, when it was the act of an unimmersed administrator. The principle of action, doubtless, was, that there could be no valid baptism unless the administrator was authorized to baptize by a properly constituted church. Hence, in a vindication of the Baptists of London published in 1615, the ground is taken, that all baptism, received either in the Church of Rome or England, is invalid; because received in a false church and from Antichristian Ministers’ (Crosby, vol. 1, p. 273). They refused to sanction the acts of any administrator, who derived his authority from churches which perverted the ordinance of baptism. This is firm Baptist ground, and the position is impregnable.” Wall testifies that there was a body of Baptists in England as early as A.D. 1587, who would have no religious intercourse with those teachers who perverted the faith of the gospel. He says: “Many of them hold it necessary, as I said, to renounce communion with all Christians that are not of their way. Many of them are so peremptory in this, that if they be in the chamber of a sick man, and any Pedobaptist minister or other, come in to pray with him, they will go out of the room. And if they be invited to the funeral of any Pedobaptist, they will go to the house and accompany the corpse with the rest of the people to the door; but there they retreat—they call it the Steeple House. They seem to judge thus: Those that are not baptized are no Christians [this is Wall’s misrepresentation, for always and ever, we have held that a man must be a Christian before he is baptized], and none are baptized but themselves [this is so]. So that they make not only baptism itself, but also the time, or age, or way of receiving it a fundamental, [to a church or church membership, we do]” (Wall’s History, chapter VIII, section 7, part II)Presented by Thomas E. Kresal from excerpts: Graves, James R.. Old Landmarkism: What is it? . First Vision Publishers. Kindle Edition.FREE BIBLE COURSE! “Old Landmarkism, what is it?” by JR Graves.Fall Bible Course Offering Beginning Nov 7, a new Bible Course will be offered studying the topic of “Old Landmarkism, What Is It”. The book for the course will be, “Old Landmarkism, what is it?” by JR Graves. If you would like to be included in the course, please email me at mike6154488802@gmail.com and I will add you to the email list. The cost of the course is $0. I only ask that you pray for me as I develop the material that it will be what God would have for it to be that He would be glorified by the effort and that all who are involved in the study might be better servants of the Lord having completed it. May God Bless, Michael Brawner, Pastor Landmark Missionary Baptist Church Honey Grove, TX
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