Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

CONTENTS.
Chapter 1. — Definition And Explanation Of Church Perpetuity
Chapter 2. — Church Perpetuity A Fundamental Truth Of The Bible
Literally, the word church always means local organization. — Figuratively, the
term church means the church institution and the totality of New Testament
churches. — Relation of the kingdom and the churches to each other. —
“Branches of the church” anti-New Testament. — An “invisible” kingdom, or an
invisible church, an absurdity and not taught in the New Testament. — The notion
of an “invisible” kingdom, or of an “invisible” church the basis of ecclesiastical
anarchy and ecclesiastical nihilism. — Only an organized local church during
centuries one and two. — Church Perpetuity necessitated from Bible promises and
the churches’ mission. — The perpetuity of the kingdom involves the perpetuity
of the church. — Attempts to evade the proofs of Church Perpetuity. — Church
apostacy an infidel doctrine. — Church apostacy the origin, the basis and the
perpetuity of new sects and sectarianism.
Chapter 3. — Church Perpetuity A Baptist Position
Chapter 4. — Church Perpetuity Admits Of Variations And Irregularities
In Baptist Faith And Practice — Statement of Professor O.B. True, D.D. —
Statement of Dr. Armitage. — Dr. Armitage silent before the challenge. —
Statement of a prominent Campbellite Professor of History. — Answers to why
own Baptist churches which are in error as in the Perpetuity Line, and deny the
same to Pedobaptist churches. — The only true test.
Chapter 5. — The Burden Of Proof On Opponents To Baptist Church
Perpetuity. The Material On Which The Historian Must Depend. The
Degree Of Proof Necessary. — Testimony of Greenleaf and Whately on the
burden of proof. — Statement of J. Wheaton Smith, D.D., on history unnecessary
to prove Baptist Church Perpetuity. — The material for proving Baptist Church
Perpetuity. — Romish forgeries and perversions. — Baptist history destroyed. —
Modern illustration of slanders on ancient Baptists.
Chapter 6. — The Negative Proof. Baptist Church Perpetuity Evident
From Baptist Opponents Being Unable To Assign Or Agree On Any
Human Founder And Post-Apostolic Origin Of Baptist Churches. —
Statements of Roman Catholic scholars. — Statements of Protestant Pedobaptist
scholars. — Statements of Campbellite scholars. —Why these scholars are
puzzled and confounded. — Origin of the Romish church. — Only believer’s
baptism administered by the apostolic churches. — Origin of the leading modern
churches. — Why modern sects are so anxious to prove Church apostacy.
Chapter 7. — In The Perpetuity Of Baptist Principles From The Apostolic
Age To The Present, Is Necessarily The Perpetuity Of Baptist
Churches