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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
Chapter 8. — The Montanists — Origin of the Montanists. — Great numbers of Montanists. — Montanists rejected baptismal regeneration. — Purity of Montanist churches. — Montanists believed in a visible church. — Montanists democratic in church government. —Montanists did not reject marriage of ministers. — Montanists and female teachers, —Montanists and time immersion, — Montanists and “visions” and “inspirations.” — Montanists characterized by purity of church membership, and reliance on the Holy Spirit. Chapter 9. — The Novatians — Origin of the Novatians. —Great number of Novatians. — Believed in a spiritual church and in strict church discipline. — Novatian not prompted by vain ambition and jealousy. — Slanders on Novatian — Novatian’s pouring intended for immersion. — Novatians rejected baptismal regeneration. — Novatian church government Baptist. — Novatians did not deny there was forgiveness with God for fallen church members. — Novatian did not believe church membership a condition of salvation. — Novatian a prudent man. — Novatian churches Baptist churches. Chapter 10. — The Donatists — Origin of the Donatists. —Their great numbers. — Adherents of church purity and church spirituality. —Donatists exonerated from the violence of the Circumcelliones. — Strictness of Donatist church discipline. — Donatists rejected infant baptism. — In church government Baptists. — Rejected baptismal regeneration. — Opposed union of church and State. — Opposed persecution. — Were immersionists. — The slander that Donatists believed in suicide. Chapter 11. — The Paulicians — Origin of the Paulicians. — Were not Manichaeans. — They did not reject parts of the Bible. — Did not reject marriage. — Did not reject baptism and the Lord’s supper. — Rejected infant baptism. — Rejected baptismal regeneration. — How the charge that they rejected baptism and the Lord’s Supper originated. — Administered single immersion. — In church government were Baptists. — Were Baptists. — Chapter 12. — The Albigenses — Origin of the Albigenses. — Were not Manichaeans. — Did not reject marriage. — Origin of the charge that they rejected marriage. — Rejected infant baptism. — Did not reject baptism and the Lord’s Supper. — Rejected baptismal regeneration. — Consideration of the charge that they refused to take oaths. — Were Baptists in church government. — Pure in their lives. — Their influence on Europe. Chapter 13. — The Paterines — Origin of Paterines. — Their great numbers. — Did not oppose marriage. — Were law abiding. — Examination of the Manichaean and Dualistic charges against them. — In church government Baptists. — Modern researches exposing the slanders on them. — No infant Baptism or seventh dayism among them. — Followed only the Bible. — Believed in election and the Spirit’s power in conversion. — Believed that demons dwell in sinner’s hearts. — Pure in their morals. — Did not attend saloons and theatres. — Strict in church discipline. — Did not reject the Old Testament. — Continued to the Reformation. — Diligent employment of “spare hours.” —
Page 1 and 2: THE BAPTIST HISTORY COLLECTION SPEC
Page 3 and 4: BAPTIST CHURCH PERPETUITY OR THE CO
Page 5 and 6: PREFACE. Notwithstanding that many
Page 7 and 8: attention of the world and occasion
Page 9: decrees, they will be safe from the
Page 13 and 14: opponent. — Munsterites not Bapti
Page 15 and 16: principles for spiritual — for ge
Page 17 and 18: L. L. Paine. Long. Herzog. Ridpath.
Page 19 and 20: CHAPTER 1. — WHAT IS CHURCH PERPE
Page 21 and 22: CHAPTER 2. — CHURCH PERPETUITY. A
Page 23 and 24: Testament, means the aggregate of t
Page 25 and 26: other meaning. Bretschneider (Lexic
Page 27 and 28: If the kingdom and the church mean
Page 29 and 30: (2.) Christ built His church. Wesle
Page 31 and 32: framed together, groweth unto a hol
Page 33 and 34: Adam Clarke: “Receive him into yo
Page 35 and 36: (c) There can be no reason why God
Page 37 and 38: King of Zion. f49 So far as the use
Page 39 and 40: Or of Kelley: Lord, thy Church is s
Page 41 and 42: Providential call, but no one of th
Page 43 and 44: CHAPTER 3. — CHURCH PERPETUITY. A
Page 45 and 46: There has probably never been a sup
Page 47 and 48: historical and Bible Church Perpetu
Page 49 and 50: is demonstrated. The Professor of H
Page 51 and 52: apostolic churches. Reader and auth
Page 53 and 54: “Many of the Welsh writings, whic
Page 55 and 56: CHAPTER 6. — THE NEGATIVE PROOF.
Page 57 and 58: Professor John Clarke Ridpath, Meth
Page 59 and 60: Waldenses, and through them a line
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CHAPTER 7. — IN THE PERPETUITY OF
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Baptist churches? “Baptist princi
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Against “Gnostocism, Montanism wa
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Spirit were to be dispensed to Chri
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That the Montanist churches were Ba
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he had not been elected bishop; tha
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The Novatian church government was
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community of saints could not fail
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CHAPTER 10. — THE DONATISTS. “T
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Munster, it would not, as in their
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Any one who is familiar with the pr
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“We clearly trace among them the
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As the result of the emperor’s de
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Child, an infidel, says: “The mem
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CHAPTER 11. — THE PAULICIANS. The
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avings of their inspired leader, th
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“They received all the books of t
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“They rejected baptism and in a m
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“Nothing is said by Hoveden of th
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“I see no reason to doubt that we
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Kurtz: “The little town of Albi i
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on nothing without the consent of t
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which were essentially Baptistic, w
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the Catharists. Let him travel in I
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Verona; Lorenzo or Lawrence at Serm
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CHAPTER 14. — THE PETROBRUSSIANS
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orders, and, indeed, grounds all hi
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would not adore images, offer praye
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Says Mosheim: CHAPTER 15. — THE A
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Baird: ecclesiastical affair’s. T
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political f325 heresy was the sourc
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CHAPTER 16. — THE WALDENSES. Of t
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from their rejecting infant baptism
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(6.) From the foregoing they agreed
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“In this liturgy there is no offi
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“As to baptism they said that was
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“formerly no person was brought t
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Says Robert Baird: “There is noth
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CHAPTER 17. — THE ANABAPTISTS. In
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pedobaptism.’ … ‘The visible
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In an article in the Standard, Prof
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“Baptism should be given to all t
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Luther and the other reformers as t
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scholars in his day, was drowned in
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sin, buried with Christ, he rises t
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on a converted membership they agre
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ecause of the effrontery with which
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Dr. Wall also says: “France seems
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CHAPTER 18. — THE ANABAPTISTS AND
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with Munzer in reference to baptism
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once deeply imbibed, blinds the eye
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put to a bloody slaughter for their
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destructive fanaticism with which a
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“The plebeian sect of the Anabapt
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Moller: “Condemned in Rome, Monta
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“They had not become extinct when
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Novatians and the Donatists, which
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CHAPTER 20. — THE BAPTIST CHURCH
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“Haeriticus est omnis non orthodo
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“The Bogomiles were a branch of t
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teachings of Peter de Bruys, and it
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CHAPTER 21. — THE WALDENSES OF AP
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Sylvester, 314 to 335 A.D. and acco
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accept the testimony of the ‘Cath
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efore Waldo, let them prove it,”
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certain professors of church histor
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history, with a genuine Waldensian
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events as to deny that traditional
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deserved his surname by residing am
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we have demonstrated, the names are
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Baptists. Keller insists throughout
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(6.) While Waldo may have been the
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CHAPTER 22. — THE WALDENSES PERPE
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Peter de Bruis and Henry — “But
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first propagandists on Holland soil
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Dr. Limborch, Professor in the Univ
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“It is well known that the Anabap
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As explanatory, says Armitage: “A
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Let it not be forgotten that I have
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continued from the times of the Apo
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There is no record of Baptists havi
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William R. Williams, says: “Raste
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enefit. Thieves and vagabonds share
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“History has for them no word of
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there were many Baptist CHURCHES in
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least a hundred years prior to the
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Queen Elizabeth reigned from 1558 t
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of Baptist principles are the demon
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(7.) Laying all this aside, I have
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CHAPTER 24. — JOHN SMYTH’S BAPT
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thereof. Now it is reason-able to c
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Smith Watson, and now we cannot, at
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Orchard’s suggestion, that Spilsb
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CHAPTER 25. — THROUGH WELSH BAPTI
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In the year 603, Augustine, called
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“The vale of Olchon is difficult
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earth can tell where the church was
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Says Cramp: “A church was immedia
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any others than Wickenden, Brown, e
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Armitage says: “In view of the fa
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No church or minister ever originat
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Brown, Wickenden and Dexter. … Th
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“The first certain date in their
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Massachusetts Baptist churches thus
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“In the year 1751, Mr. Nicholas B
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Christian era. … He had little ec
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organized before Williams’ church
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fellowship any who should do these
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(3.) To assist those members that s
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pleased the Lord to stir up their h
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“agreed that the churches should
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Silas Hart, 1795, died and left to
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letters desiring the aid of this bo
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“Elder James Osborne was a member
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As there is no difference in doctri
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So, without looking into their othe
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laid on infant baptism. … We are
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church. … I cannot be conscientio
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spiritual choice for any souls. Hen
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“We are surprised to learn that t
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In defining baptizo the American ed
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“That this is a mistranslation th
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M. T. Yates and A.B. Cabaniss are a
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the rate of 99 per cent.; Campbelli
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THE FOLLOWING FROM THE BAPTIST YEAR
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property, their good name, their li
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doctrinal or practical word, they h
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CHAPTER 29. — ST. PATRICK A BAPTI
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crowned in A.D. 1057. When Collier
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Thus, first, Irish monasteries were
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REVELATION 20:2. ROMISH CHURCH TREE
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FOOTNOTES ft1 In this list I have n
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seed.” The “invisible” notion
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ft95 From wieder, meaning again, an
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y aspersion, in the bed in whirl’
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ft182 Israel of the Alps, vol. 1, p
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ft245 Robinson’s Eccl. Researches
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ft300 Kurtz’s Chr. Hist., vol. 1,
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Proverbs 28:26; Genesis 6:5; 8:21;
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sunt et prudenter expenderere deben
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ft452 Idem, p. 124. ft453 Idem, p.
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ft504 Fuller’s Ch. Hist. of Brita
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ft549 Schaff-Herzog Ency., vol. 2,
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ft607 Robinson’s Reel. Resh., pp.
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Romish church, even permitting thei
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ft713 In the Globe-Democrat of 1678
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ft771 Idem, p. 79. ft772 Idem, p. 9
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ft830 Goadby’s Bye Paths to Bap.
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Williams’ society had dissolved;
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ft909 Adlam’s “First Bap. Ch. i
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Great Founder, Jesus Christ, than o
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ft963 Crosby’s Hist. Eng. Bap., v
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ft995 Idem, p. 27. ft996 Idem, p. 3
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ft1030 These views are the Bible te
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it does not destroy their sects. Ha
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ft1089 The Ancient British and Iris
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