{"id":643,"date":"2019-10-06T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awarningministry.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2019-10-06T18:47:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:47:48","slug":"643","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/06\/643\/","title":{"rendered":"BAPTIST HISTORY, HERITAGE and DISTINCTIVES \u2013 Baptist Are Ancient People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\u200eThomas E Kresal<\/a>\u200e to<\/em> Baptist Church History<\/a> December 13, 2018<\/abbr><\/a> \u00b7 <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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BAPTIST HISTORY, HERITAGE and DISTINCTIVES \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baptist Are Ancient People<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until 1899 every Baptist historian in the world acknowledged the Baptist as ancient people tracing their principles back to the time of Christ and His disciples.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One would think that pedobaptist (infant baptism) historians from Roman Catholic, Congregational, Methodist, or Presbyterian backgrounds would try to discredit the ancient nature of the Baptists. Surprisingly, the best of the pedobaptist Protestant historians freely admitted that Baptists were ancient and could be found dissenting very early from the Catholic Church:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Mennonites (Anabaptists) consider themselves as descendants of the Waldenses,..The Mennonites are not entirely in error when they boast of their descent from the Waldenses, Petrobrussians and other ancient sects\u2026Before the rise of Luther and Calvin, there lay concealed in almost all countries of Europe, who adhered tenaciously to the following doctrine which the Waldensians, Wycliffites, and the Hussites had maintained.\u201d History of the Mennonites or Anabaptists, vol. 2, p. 128 by John Lawrence Mosheim, Reformed German historian, 1871<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI should not readily admit that there was a Baptist church as far back as 100 AD, although without doubt there were Baptist churches then, as all Christians were then Baptists.\u201d Methodist Historian John Clark Ridpath, W.A. Jarrell, Baptist Church Perpetuity or History, 1894, p. 59<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere shall be no faythe more certayne and true then the Anabaptises, seeying there be none nowe, or have bene before time fore ye space of these thousand and two hundred years, who have bene more cruelly punished, or that have more stoutely, stedfastly, cheerfully take there punishment, yea or have offered them selves of theire owne accords to deathe, were it never so terrible or grevouse. Yea in Saint Augustyn his time, as he hymselffe saith, there was a certain monstrous desire of deathe in them.\u201d A Most Excellent Treatise of the Begynnyng of Heresyes (Antwerp: Aeg Diest. 1565, reprint, Yorkshire, England: The Scholar Press ltd., 1970) p. 44 by Stanislaus Hosius, Roman Catholic Theologian, Byshop of Worms in Prussia and President of the Council of Trent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 1899, those who held to the belief that Baptists were ancient were labeled as \u201cLandmarkersm,\u201d or \u201cTrail of Blood adherents,\u201d or \u201cBaptist Briders.\u201d This is strange, seeing the long line of classic Baptist historians could not possibly be labeled in this manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short list of Baptist historians that believed Baptists to be ancient:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Spittlehosue (1652), Theilman J. Van Braught (1660), Henry D\u2019Anvers (1670), Thomas Crosbt (1740), Isaac Backus (1770), David Benedict (1813), Joseph Ivimey (1830), G.H. Orchard (1830), J.M. Cramp (1868), Charles H. Spurgeon (1868), William Cathcart (1887), Thomas Armitage (1888), J.M. Carroll (1901) and John Taylor Christian (1926).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll who know much of the Baptist denomination must have regretted that so few are acquainted with its early history \u2026It remains a matter of great surprise that our own congregations should be, for the most part, uninstructed in the past doings of our body.\u201d C.H. Spurgeon \u201cThe Sword & the Trowel\u201d August, 1868<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prepared by Thomas E. Kresal: Excerpts from: \u201cSacred Betrayal\u201d by James R. Beller (www.Prairie Fire Press, St. Louis, Missouri, 205 p. 1-3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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